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...Soviet-bloc plans have driven East Germany ahead of Red China and Czechoslovakia as Russia's No. 1 trading partner, turning Soviet raw materials into every kind of machine from dynamos for Soviet dams to electronic components for Sputniks. The Russians are pouring millions of marks into making Rostock a major seaport, a substitute for East Germany's natural outlet of Hamburg. Under the grandiose new Khrushchev expansion plans, the Russians have agreed to give East Germany the equivalent of nearly $200 million in economic aid next year, and have assigned the East Germans an industrial specialty: chemicals...
...until 1955 because parts often were promised for delivery after the planned completion of the ship, and supplying industries were built up far from ports. East Germany has launched one 10,000-ton freighter at Warnemünde, now is producing other freighters at Wismar and Rostock, plus 500-ton fishing luggers and luxury yachts (for Communist brass and export) in shipyards at Stralsund and Wolgast on the blue Baltic. But East Germany's marine diesel engines are of prewar design, far too heavy and bulky to compete with the West's. Radio equipment is antiquated, automatic welding...
...protest march. It happened almost the same way at Wolfgang Fritsch's house. As he and his wife switched off the radio and went to bed, he muttered: "It's happened. It's happened." Next morning, at the Agfa plant, the uranium pits, the dockworks at Rostock, the heavy-machinery works in Magdeburg, at the center of Red Berlin, all across the country, the hatred and yearning exploded into the bloody rebellion of June...
...Germany's Soviet-occupied zone, one morning last week, a Dr. Becker settled himself at his big desk to open his mail. On top of the pile was a blank sheet, marked with a single big F. That same day, in the seaside town of Rostock, the sidewalks were strewn with Fs torn from the newspapers. In Leipzig, Weimar, Potsdam and the Soviet sector of Berlin, white, chalked Fs appeared on the shells of bombed-out buildings. The F stood for Freiheit-freedom from Soviet terror...
...Eastern Germany was fitting together. At first there had been only isolated clues-the wing of a prison converted into barracks at Dessau, an order for 5,000 shoulder insignia of the old German style, the sight of men marching and drilling on a onetime Wehrmacht training field near Rostock. Then the evidence came faster. The Russians were busily organizing a military "police" force of a quarter of a million Germans, almost twice as large as the entire force of pre-Hitler Germany...