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The “Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland” was founded on 12-13 July 1943 at Krasnogorsk with Soviet support. Its members were German Prisoners of War (mostly Stalingrad fighters), Communist politicians (Pieck, Ulbricht) and writers (Becher, Wolf). The aim was the overthrow of the Hitler regime and the end of World War II by means of propaganda transmitted by the radio station "Freies Deutschland” (Free Germany), loudspeakers at the front, leaflets dropped by planes, and by the weekly newspaper “Freies Deutschland”. The hope was to convince soldiers on Germany’s “eastern front” to defect to the Soviet lines. --Dr. Rainer Lotz
The “Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland” was founded on 12-13 July 1943 at Krasnogorsk with Soviet support. Its members were German Prisoners of War (mostly Stalingrad fighters), Communist politicians (Pieck, Ulbricht) and writers (Becher, Wolf). The aim was the overthrow of the Hitler regime and the end of World War II by means of propaganda transmitted by the radio station "Freies Deutschland” (Free Germany), loudspeakers at the front, leaflets dropped by planes, and by the weekly newspaper “Freies Deutschland”. The hope was to convince soldiers on Germany’s “eastern front” to defect to the Soviet lines.
