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3 unusual facts about Horst Sindermann


Horst Sindermann

His older brother, Kurt Sindermann, also entered politics as a member of the Communist Party and sat on the Saxon state parliament from 1929 to 1933.

In March 1935, he again was arrested for attempted high treason, tortured and put in solitary confinement for six years at Waldheim jail.

After 1946 he was a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), created from a forced merger of Communists and Social Democrats in the Soviet Occupation Zone.



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