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- Title: Between the Fronts: German-Speaking Intellectuals in the Viet Minh (Report)
- Author : Arena Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 224 KB
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Cold War Reception in the German Democratic Republic On 20 February 1950, the chairman of the Free German Youth (FDJ), Erich Honecker, launched an appeal to the 'German soldiers in Vietnam' in the Foreign Legion. (1) As their 'continued stay in the Legion is not compatible with the future and the honour of our nation,' he exhorted them to rally to 'the camp of the Vietnamese freedom fighters where already many former German legionnaires are'. He promised amnesty and employment for those who decided to return to the German Democratic Republic (GDR). (2) Four months later, GDR President Wilhelm Pieck received a note from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam informing him that 'there are many German soldiers in the captivity of the Vietnamese Liberation Army'. The matter was considered of the highest priority, and Pieck was asked to deal with it in the Politbureau because, 'If we could manage to get a number of these people to come here, then this would be a big thing for our propaganda towards West Germany'. (3) Shortly before the arrival of the first transport of former legionnaires from Vietnam, the Socialist Unity Party's (SED) general-secretary, Walter Ulbricht, advised that 'through interviews, radio and photo reports, a public reporting campaign had to take place in connection with the struggle against the re-militarisation of West Germany'. (4)
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