People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재
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GlossarySocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
- Hermann Matern Hermann Matern SED Politburo member and chairman of the Central Party Control Commission who stood by Ulbricht in 1953
- Walter Ulbricht Walter Ulbricht German communist leader who built the GDR and erected the Berlin Wall
- Otto Grotewohl Otto Grotewohl The Social Democrat who led a divided state into being
- 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 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