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Meanwhile Wilhelm Pieck, President of the East German Communist government, left Moscow after a month's "rest cure" for a visit in Warsaw with Polish President Boleslaw Bierut...
Communist bosses harangued the youngsters in relays; East Germany's President Wilhelm Pieck cried: "Boys and girls, there are people in the U.S., England and France, and also in West Germany, who made much money with each bomb that destroyed your homes and schools. Every child's tear during the war years was a clear profit to them...
...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...
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...