DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITHIN THE GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600340002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 1, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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SUBJECT Difference of Opinion within the
rerman O i st Party
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During the absence of Pieck a.nd Grotewohi in western Gernnny, "'alter.
iJlbrieht took the lead In formulating the SFD 9s day-to-~dsy p 1 icier w
On the question of denazificationg Ulbricht will soon go one step
further and recommend full rehabilitation of active. Yazi Harty them
hers and former "Yehrmecht officers as long as they have committed no
crimes,
At a press conference 18 March 3.047, after his rnturn from the U::S?
Zone, Grotewohi stated that the KPD in western Germany must accept
two fundamental planks in the SED niatform:
a) The SE D is a German narty which fights in its own country for the
interests of its own reonleo
consultations was inspired by the SED.
renorts that It has. been announced in SF-D circles that the.
plebiscite on the form of the future German government is Mol.otovqs
idea. According to the same source. the CDU nror?osal for four-party,
h) In Germany future developments must proceed in line with demo-
cratic principles.
25X1A Comment: This
is a i,.. arni ng to the (dQmmuni~IA frcm Grateirrhl
to stop talking about the dictatorship of the proletariat or the
Soviet system -,) Cc ~nt: For fuether? info =-tion on the difference
25X1 A of views between the ''D of the atern zones and the SRC of the Soviet Gone
0I actor G Uri; ed
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