GER403 10/6/2004 Test review 1) remember the Mussolini Schreibtisch 2) someone asked Leonhard how many people in Germany were for the East (15%) and for the West (85%) 3) Zitat von Buber-Neumann 4) Datum des Pakts war 23. August 1939 (only 1 week before the war) 5) End of WWI was 11. November 1918 7) didn't mention that the Russians actually didn't get a letter saying he was a spy 9) Rolf Gei?ler war Freund von Leonhard, nicht Lehrer 11) is von Buber-Neumann und errinert Zweig's quote about Sicherheit (neuen Sozialistischen Menschen would result in no exploitation or crime) 12) Mitteldeutschland used to mean where the Soviet Occupation Zone was; old maps noted eastern Germany as under Polish and Soviet administration 1) Zweig und Buber-Neumann both wrote about the same principle but for different cultures. 3) Private Life of the Master Race was its first American title. Back to "The Rebuilding Begins" chapter -- Leonhard, S. 131 -- 30. April 1945 ist auch ein verh?ngnisvolle Tag -- Hitler ist gestorben, und die Gruppe Ulbricht nach Berlin kam, einen kommunisten Gesellschaft aufzubauen -- Stalin said WWII was not like other wars whoever won it would impose its social system on the territory its army controlled -- Leonhard says he was not a communist fanatic then -- his ideas came mostly in the Weiderspruch zu Marxismus (contradiction) Stalinism is not Marxism -- things that led to Politikexx? (Zweifel) -- marchinery of the NKVD -- USSR lost lots of people in the war with Finland, who fought fiercely but lost (weakening the Soviets though); Stalin had been angered enough to purge his officer corp as well, not necessarily a wise move before WWII -- plundering Poland -- suppression of free speech -- Kritik und Selbstkritik process -- Thingns he tried to justify for himself: -- Soviet Union arose in a relatively undeveloped country and was still catching up to the West -- Leonhard had hoped the Soviets would allow more freedoms after the war as a new era started B?rgermeister einzusetzen war ein Problem -- viele Russen konnten kein Deutsch -- viele Leute lied about whether they'd been Nazis -- picture of Wilhelm Pieck und Otto Grotewohl is important -- neuen Direktiven von Ulbricht: there had to be two deputies for each mayor (vice mayors would be true Communists and would hae the power) -- wanted people from the three bourgeois parties of the Weimar Republic in order to not appear dictatorial -- they looked for antifascist clergy too to look good -- most important sentence in the whole book: Es ist doch gang klar: Es muss demokratisch aussehen, aber wir m?ssen alles in der Hand haben. (noch ein Beispiel von Stalinismus) -- Wilmersdorf ist ein Stadtteil von Berlin -- man who'd been part of the plot to kill Hitler comes to him to talk to him alone; the man had been im KZ -- Leonhard thought he'd be good for the job, but he didn't want it, but he had a friend, Dr Willenb?cher corresponded to exactly to what Ulbricht wanted -- finding a mayor was easy but drinking as much as a Russian was hard Back to Leonhard video: (interview on 3sat) Landtagswahren -- papers always said 95% for SED, 5% for andere Parteien 7) see percentage thing above (more people really were for the West) 8) Januar 1948 SPD, KPD came together April 1948 Vorbereitung der Berliner Blockade Geheime L?sung (1/2 and 1/2 Kommunisten und ?) August 1948 Selbstkritik Nur einen Weg zu Sozialistmus Stalinischten System 3/12/1949 he was fed up and left, to Czcheckoslovakia; he was in trouble and went to Yugoslavia 3/25/1949 -- end of 14 years of communist life doubt started in 1937 Mother arrested Massenverhaftungen caused his first criticisms Niederlagen das Ende der Blokpolitik Immer mehr und mehr something End der Leninera begonnen haben? Not a straight process to his break but ups and downs after he fled, he still was a marxist, but he thought stalin was a traitor to marx 2 years at Oxford -- they loved Marxists (true ones) 11) 1950 Ostexperte in der BRD Counted lines of coverage over people to determine ntheir seniority in the Politburo Reading between the lines in the papers to figure things out </plaintext><br /></body></html>