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...mass meeting held by Germany's four major parties (Social Democrats, Communists, Liberal Democrats and Christian Democrats) in Berlin's British sector, shrewd, grey Communist Leader Wilhelm Pieck called for national unity and informed the Nazi small fry that they were welcome as comrades. Said he: "We call on all the little members of the former Nazi party who committed no crimes . . . penitent, nominal Nazis. . . ." Among the three thousand people who jammed Berlin's massive, prison-like Radio Building, there were cries of: "We want no Nazis...
Confiscated also was all land owned by the Nazi Party, active Nazis, war criminals, Reichstag deputies under Hitler. Three days later Brandenburg and Mecklenburg followed suit. The land would be divided among the landless peasants, farm workers and refugee German farmers. Said Communist Party Chairman Wilhelm Pieck: the bloodless revolution may be completed by October...
...Union's chief architect and the man most likely to dominate its central committee was shrewd, grey Communist Wilhelm Pieck, onetime Reichstag Deputy, more recently a founder and charter member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee. The four parties included the three authorized last month by the Russians
Popular Front. The manifesto, which promptly received the blessing of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, administrator of the Russian occupation zone, was signed by Wilhelm Pieck, head of Moscow's former Free Germany Committee (TIME, Oct. 30) and a number of other German Communists who have returned from Russia or from concentration camps to take key jobs in the new German administration...
...anything was agreed at Yalta about disbanding the National Committee of Free Germany, nothing was published about it. Yet it was this group in the Free Germany Committee that was the key to Russia's future intentions in Germany. It was Wilhelm Pieck, not Bismarck's great-grandson, or Field Marshal von Paulus, who might realize in reverse the Iron Chancellor's dream of a strong Russian-German alliance. Until Russia disavowed Pieck and his committee, it could be assumed that the Kremlin had a plan for them...