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in 1993. In his testimony, he claimed he "could barely remember details of events stretching back over forty years" and in response to most questions put by the prosecution and the presiding judge, Guillaume only referred them to his autobiography.
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in 1944. On January 17, 1944, Guillaume applied for admission to the NSDAP and was admitted on April 20 of the same year (membership number 9,709,880).
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Guillaume died of heart attack and a stroke on 10 April 1995, in Petershagen/Eggersdorf, near Berlin. Guillaume's first wife died on 20 March 2004.
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In 1974, West German authorities discovered that Guillaume was spying for the East German government. The resulting scandal, the
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said that Willy Brandt's downfall was not intended, and that the affair was among the Stasi's biggest mistakes. After
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on Stasi orders to penetrate and spy on West Germany's political system. Rising through the
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Günter Karl Heinz Guillaume was born on 1 February 1927, at 31 Choriner Straße in
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Guillaume was called as a witness for the prosecution in Markus Wolf's trial for
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Guillaume (right) with West German chancellor Willy Brandt, 1972–1974
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In East Germany, Guillaume was received and celebrated as a
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attractive to Karl Guillaume, and he joined in March 1934.
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Guillaume, der Spion: eine deutsch-deutsche Karriere
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