The “Free Germany Committee” will gain some important spokepersons in the near future, notably Gen. Seydlitz and Field Marshal Paulus, both captured at Stalingrad.
It is not the last time we will hear the names of Ulbricht and Pieck. They are just Stalin’s sock puppets now and will be when the war ends. The war will be over for 10 years and still hundreds of thousands of their fellow countrymen, captured as POWs, will languish in Soviet labor camps. These communist scum won’t lift a finger to aid them or secure their release. It will take the death of Joseph Stalin and a state visit to Moscow by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1955 to finally accomplish this. The price will be recognition of East Germany, the split of the nation will seem permanent, but it was the price to pay to “bring the boys back home.”
No thanks to Walter Ulbricht or Wilhelm Pieck.