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...member of the party's Politburo, Central Committee and Secretariat, Dahlem headed the East German military buildup, and was East Germany's liaison man to the Cominform. Only two German Communists were bigger: Party General Secretary Walter Ulbricht, who toppled him, and Security Boss Wilhelm Zaisser, who arrested him. His crimes: "Political blindness." He was also charged with having supported Czech Communist Leader Rudolf Slansky, executed as a traitor last year. Warned the official announcement: "The investigation is not over yet." The hyena was still hungry...
...Jews. Included: Max Keilsen, chief of the Soviet Union section of the East German Foreign Office, and his wife Greta; Peter Floring, head of the East European section; Georg Handcke, East German ambassador to Red Rumania. Even Premier Grotewohl himself appeared to be in danger. Secret Police Chief Wilhelm Zaisser acted without Grotewohl's orders in arresting his Foreign Minister...
...Bosses. Boss of the whole show is Security Minister Wilhelm Zaisser, whose profession is revolution. Communist Zaisser led the Rhineland Red uprisings of 1923, later turned up in Spain as "General Gomez," commander of the 13th International Brigade. Heinz Hoffman, Inspector General of the Vopo, is a graduate of the Red army's war college...
...Hans Zaisser's army nucleus worries democratic Germans in the West. They can see compulsory military service in the Soviet Zone around the corner, with a full-fledged War Ministry in the puppet Communist government of East Germany...
...immediate effect, they concede, is chiefly political rather than military. Zaisser's army is impressive proof to them of Soviet Russia's earnestness in the struggle for Germany and Europe...