Category
page 1Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union
Clara Zetkin
Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857–1933)
Walter Ulbricht
German communist politician and dictator (1893–1973)
Wilhelm Pieck
German communist politician, president of GDR (1876-1960)
Johannes R. Becher
German politician, novelist and poet (1891–1958)
Markus Wolf
Head of the East German foreign intelligence service during the Cold War (1923–2006)
Erwin Piscator
German theatre director (1893–1966)
Ernst Busch
German actor (1900-1980)
Wolf Messing
Russian clairovoyant, telepathist, hypnotist, occultist (1899-1974)
Herbert Wehner
German politician (KPD, SPD) (1906-1990)
Margarete Buber-Neumann
German writer (1909-1989)
Konrad Wolf
East German film director (1925–1982)
Erich Weinert
German communist writer (1890–1953)
Heinz Hoffmann
German politician (SED) (1910-1985)
Gustav von Wangenheim
German actor (1895-1975)
Theodor Plievier
German writer (1892-1955)
Ernst Wollweber
East German Stasi officer (1898-1967)
Erwin Geschonneck
German actor (1906-2008)
Herwarth Walden
German artist and art collector (1878-1941)
Kurt Sanderling
German conductor (1912–2011)
Otto Winzer
German politician (1902-1975)
Anton Ackermann
German politician (1905-1973)
Lothar Bolz
German politician (1903-1986)
Carola Neher
German actress (1900-1942)
Willi Bredel
German writer and politician (1901-1964)
Fritz Stiedry
Austrian conductor (1883–1968)
Fritz Houtermans
physicist (1903-1966)
Hedda Zinner
German political writer, translator, actress, and journalist (1904–1994)
Peter Florin
German politician (1921-2014)
Wolfgang Leonhard
German author, historian (1921–2014)
Karl Maron
German journalist (1903-1975)
Heinrich Rau
German Communist politician (1899–1961)
Hermann Matern
German politician (1893-1971)
Lilly Becher
German writer (1901–1978)
Martha Arendsee
German politician and resistance fighter (1885-1953)
Alfred Kurella
German writer, politician (SED), MdV, and cultural official (1895–1975)
Rudolf Herrnstadt
German politician (1903-1966)
Hermann Remmele
German politician (1880-1939)
Hans Hellmann
German scientist (1903–1938)
Waldemar Verner
German admiral (1914-1982)
Emmy Damerius-Koenen
German politician and journalist, member of the East German Volkskammer (1903–1987)
Fred Oelßner
German politician and economist (1903-1977)
Erwin Kramer
German politician (1902-1979)
Will Lammert
German sculptor (1892–1957)
Kostja Zetkin
German politician and physician (1885-1980)
Hermann Richard Schubert
German politician (1886-1938)
Hans Kippenberger
German politician (1898-1937)
Wilhelm Florin
German politician (1894-1944)
Max Seydewitz
German politician (1892-1987)
Stefan Doernberg
German diplomat (1924–2010)
Wolfgang Steinitz
German ethnologist (1905-1967)
Hanna Wolf
German politician (1908-1999)
Ernst Ottwalt
German author and radio playwright (1901-1943)
Hanna Sandtner
German politician (1900-1958)
Heinrich Koenen
German resistance member (1910–1945)
Käthe Niederkirchner
German Communist anti-Nazi resistance activist (1909-1944)
Gustav Sobottka
German politician (1886-1953)
Helene Berg
German politician (1906-2006)
Arthur Pieck
German actor and politician (1899-1970)
Zenzl Mühsam
German political activist (1884-1962)
Hitler Youth Conspiracy
show trial in Soviet Union prosecuting many young Germans for being members of the Hitler Youth