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East German Spies: Erich Mielke, Tamara Bunke, Markus Wolf, Ernst Wollweber, Werner Teske, Karl-Heinz Kurras, Vic Allen, Hans Sommer |
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English |
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Paperback |
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50 |
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2010-09-15 |
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1157496849 |
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Books LLC |
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0.19 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.12 inches |
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Chapters: Erich Mielke, Tamara Bunke, Markus Wolf, Ernst Wollweber, Werner Teske, Karl-Heinz Kurras, Vic Allen, Hans Sommer, Ellen Rometsch, Gerda Munsinger, Jaakko Laakso, Werner Grossmann, Jouko Jokisalo, Jukka Rusi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Erich Fritz Emil Mielke (December 28, 1907 May 21, 2000 in Berlin) was a German Communist politician and Minister of State Security of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 to 1989. A hard-line Communist, he spent several years in the Soviet Union. Mielke held the military rank of Armeegeneral. In 1993, he was convicted of the murders of police officers Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck in 1931. In handwritten biographies written for Stalin's secret police, Mielke described his background as follows, "I, Erich Mielke, was born on December 28, 1907, in Berlin, (Prussia). My father was a poor, uneducated woodworker, and my mother died in 1911. Both were members of the SPD and joined the KPD when it was formed in 1918. My stepmother was a seamstress and she also belonged to the KPD. My younger brother Kurt and two sisters were Communist sympathisers." Mielke became a member of the Communist Party of Germany during the 1920s and worked as a reporter for a communist newspaper from 19281931. He joined the Parteiselbstschutz ("Party Self Defense Unit") and took part in street battles against both the Nazis and the officials of Germany's Weimar Republic. He is also alleged to have shot an SA man. On August 9, 1931 Mielke and Erich Ziemer ambushed and murdered two Berlin police officers, Captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck. The act was carried out at the urging of Walter Ulbricht, and was directly supervised by Communist Members of the Reichstag Heinz Neumann and Hans Kippenberger. After the two policemen wer...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=245716
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