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leadership had become increasingly split between those prepared, if grudgingly, to go along with East
Germany's constitutional arrangements, and those uncompromising and vociferous in their opposition. Stempel had been prominent among the latter and on 6 September 1950 he was excluded from the party,
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that merely controlled them. Opposition parties naturally resisted control by the SED, and it was the resulting tensions that provide the context for the rest of
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which some reports at the time were able to present as a result of internal party rivalries. He was succeeded as party
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In consequence of his treatment in the Soviet Union, Stempel never fully recovered physically. He died in Celle on 22 October 1981.
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against Hamann: it may or may not have been a comment on the quality of his testimony that in August 1954 he was sent back to the
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