The Russian's New Man in East Berlin
WHEN Soviet troops swept into Berlin in 1945, they battered down the doors of the Brandenburg Prison. Among the prisoners freed was Erich Honecker, a tall, gaunt Communist who had spent most of the past ten years in solitary confinement. Upon his release, Honecker lost no time in joining the Ulbricht Group, a band of Moscow-trained Communists who had been flown to Germany by the Russians to organize a government.
Honecker's record obviously impressed Walter Ulbricht, who had met the young man briefly in Paris in the 1930s. The...
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