Item COLD WAR 11/10 - Transcript of interview with broadcaster Karl Eduard von Schnitzler, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Karl Eduard von Schnitzler, broadcaster on Berlin Radio, [1945-1960], relating to the appointment of German Grand Adm Karl Dönitz as Führer of the Third Reich, following the suicide of Adolf Hitler, 30 Apr 1945; von Schnitzler's work for Berlin Radio in opposition to Radio in Amerikanischer Sektor (RIAS), 1948-1953; his opinion that the purpose of RIAS broadcasts was to destabilise the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1953; the anti-communist propaganda broadcast by RIAS, 1948-1953; the popularity of Berlin Radio, 1948-1960; the influx of refugees from the German Democratic Republic to West Berlin, 1949-1961; the importance of Berlin Radio in strengthening the new German Democratic Republic, 1949-1953; von Schnitzler's liaisons with officials from the SED (German Socialist Unity Party), and the Soviet news agencies and radio stations, 1949-1953; the possibility of a war between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1950-1952; the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; the Berlin uprising, 17 Jun 1953 and the role of the Red Army in quelling it; and Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956, and in Czechoslovakia, 1968.