Item COLD WAR 11/18 - Transcript of interview with politician Karl Schirdewan, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Karl Schirdewan, member of the Politburo, German Democratic Republic, 1953, relating to the division of Germany into zones of occupation controlled by the USSR, USA, UK and France, 1945; the creation of the German Democratic Republic, Oct 1949; the announcement, by Walther Ulbricht, leader of the Socialist Unity Party, of the integration of the economy of the German Democratic Republic with the economies of the other East European Soviet satellite states, Jul 1952; the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953; the character of Ulbricht, 1946-1971; the East Berlin uprising, 17 Jun 1953; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and many of the worst excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the rise of Fascism and the National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party) in Germany, [1920]-1934. 34pp