People of the Revolution and the USSR
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Citizenship: Germany
The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재
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GlossarySocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
- Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin
- Friedrich Ebert Jr. Friedrich Ebert junior A social democrat who moved from municipal politics into state power amid Germany's division
- Kurt Schumacher Kurt Schumacher SPD leader who survived ten years in Nazi camps and, after the war, refused the merger with the Communists
- Erich Gniffke Erich Gniffke SPD organiser in the Soviet zone who signed the merger with the KPD, then left the SED in 1948 and fled west
- Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer Exiled SPD functionary who succeeded Schumacher as SPD leader and leader of the West German opposition
- Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities