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ARREST IN WARSAW
AND PRAGUE
I now turned my attention toward the East, for if
Brandt were to take his place in history, it would depend on how he dealt with
that area. Also, I was distressed by rumbles of anti-Semitism coming from the
East.
Once the German elections were over, I telephoned a Polish
dipomat named Dmowsky, who a few months earlier had invited me to visit Poland.
I told him that I was now ready to accept, because not only did I like to
travel, but I also wanted to lecture to young Poles and tell them about the
struggle young German anti-fascists were making. I told Dmowsky that I
definitely wanted to speak at Auschwitz.
He must have suspected what I
would say, for in spite of several more telephone calls the invitation was not
renewed.
Some time earlier, on October , 1969, I had been invited to
East Berlin for the celebration of the German Democratic Republic's twentieth
anniversary. Ulbricht shook my hand cordially. Perhaps my persistence was the
reason for the attention I now got from that little man who was the embodiment
of communist Germany, and who would be remembered in the history of Germany for
having transformed the zone he dominated into one of the world's highly
industrialized regions. A member of the Central
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