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...Committee No. 1 (and undoubtedly the more important for Russian purposes) was the National Committee of Free Germany. It consisted of German Communists and fellow travelers, most of whom were refugees from Hitler's Germany. Most important among them was the German Communist and ex-Reichstag deputy Wilhelm Pieck, who with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht had organized Germany's 1919 Spartacus revolution (TIME...
...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...
GERMANY Move Over, Pharaoh Germany's ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was well on the way to being sovietized last week. His 25,000-acre estate at Oels was in the hands of the Red Army; his duchies of Pomerania and Silesia were being claimed by the Warsaw Government of Poland (see above). It seemed only a question of time until all the $17,000,000 worth of Hohenzollern land in Germany would pass out of the family-perhaps, too, the rocky eyrie at Sigmaringen, from which the Hohenzollerns originally came, and which the Nazis, with creditable irony...
...better dynastic days the Hohenzollerns had had an astonishing appetite for real estate. "Come to think of it, I would like to have Windsor Castle for a summer resort," Kaiser Wilhelm II once casually remarked. His second son Eitel Friedrich chimed in: "And you will let me have the Isle of Man, won't you?" After the Kaiser had fled to Holland, where he sprinkled gold dust on the signature of his abdication in 1918, he was reduced to eating the bitter bread of exile in the curtailed magnificence of House Doorn. But his heart was still in Potsdam...
Five years of exile were all that Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm could stand. After that, he scraped along with the German estates which the Weimar Republic considerately left to him. Berliners got to know him as a fop who drove a racy red roadster to the capital's better hot spots and was unpleasantly wolfish at his own parties. His four sons went various ways : Louis Ferdinand worked for a while in Henry Ford's plant in Detroit, then married a Russian refugee Romanov princess, ended up as a prisoner of the Allies. The eldest son, Wilhelm, lost...