Word: pieck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail in his office and promptly went into a screaming rage. East German President and Communist Boss Wilhelm Pieck then personally ordered Grotewohl confined to the hospital...
Signal honors came last week to Wilhelm Pieck, the little white-haired, pink-cheeked old (73) boss of German Communism. They came because, after the summer's respite, the Russians were opening a new, rougher phase in the battle for Germany...
Father Unity. Pieck had helped found the German Communist Party in 1919, has been a faithful party wheelhorse ever since. When Hitler came to power, he found a home-away-from-home in Moscow. While Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, at Yalta, discussed Germany's future with their ally Stalin, Pieck was busy making speeches to German P.W.s in Russia, forming the nucleus of a future German Communist regime. When the Red Army moved into Berlin, Pieck was flown into the city by special Russian plane. He had work to do there...
Last week, after four years as the sly, tireless head of the Communist-run German Socialist Unity Party, "Father Unity" (as his comrades called him) was formally inaugurated as president of the new Red puppet republic in Germany's Russian zone. Pieck, a worker's son, watched a torchlight parade of 300,000 Berliners (complete with fireworks, goose step and Prussian military marches), inspected the Communist-trained "people's police." Berliners compared the show to the one the Nazis staged when Hitler seized power in 1933. Two days after the fireworks came the greatest honor...
...little Willie Pieck buckled down tc his new job in Berlin's eastern sector, fat and florid as usual, thinking about great actions of world significance...