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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...
From burrows outside the Iron Curtain and baronies inside, Red plenipotentiaries rushed to the Kremlin by plane and train for the emergency ingathering of the clan. From East Berlin, his neatly barbered, Lenin-type goatee nuzzling a huge brown overcoat collar, flew Walter Ulbricht, who likes to be called "the little Lenin," wears the title of Deputy Premier, but is the real boss of Communist East Germany. From Budapest came the Jew-purging Jew, Matyas Rakosi, who used Stalin's purge-trial technique to install himself in control of postwar Hungary. From Bucharest came Premier Gheorghiu...
East Germany, said its boss, Communist Party Secretary Walter Ulbricht, suffers because it has "failed to assimilate progressive Soviet science and technology." There are shortages of steel, coal, power, labor and transport, he told the Communist Party Central Committee, because "some people are still strongly influenced by religion, and believe that Socialism will come from Heaven. This is erroneous." From the sovietized Bergmann-Borsig engineering works in East Berlin, Communist inspectors reported: "Working according to schedule is an extremely rare event . . . An average of ten substandard cylinder heads has been made for every one that was up to standard...
...after the war treaty is signed," East Germany's Communist Vice Premier Walter Ulbricht had warned, "Berlin will know the consequences." Puppet Ulbricht proved as good as his word...
...were temporarily barred from the no-mile stretch of Autobahn linking Berlin to West Germany. But each pinprick seemed to fit into an ominous Soviet stencil. The Reds were giving West Germans a glimpse of what might happen if they turn down the Soviet offer of "unity." Huffed Walter Ulbricht, East German Deputy Premier: "The day the peace contract is signed, West Berlin will learn its consequences...