Rote Hilfe
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The Rote Hilfe was the German affiliate of the International Red Aid. The Rote Hilfe was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany and existed between 1924 and 1936. Its purpose was to provide help to those Communists who had been jailed or were imprisoned.
The Barkenhoff in Worpswede, 2007
Wilhelm Pieck
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Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck was a German communist politician who served as the chairman of the Socialist Unity Party from 1946 to 1950 and as president of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1960.
Walter Ulbricht, Wilhelm Pieck and Otto Grotewohl at the founding ceremony of the German Democratic Republic, 1949
Pieck meeting with Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, 1959
Pieck in June 1926, dedicating the memorial statue for the victims of the German November Revolution of 1918