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western media at the same time that he had been excluded from the
Central Committee of the SED and released from his position as a deputy minister "because he had concealed his membership of the Waffen-SS and thereby greatly damaged the party". East German politicians and media frequently berated the West German political establishment for alleged insufficient diligence applied to "
609:, a qualification which would have opened the way to a full-time university career, though in his case his academic work continued to run in parallel with his political responsibilities. Between 1961 and the start of 1963 he served as Director of the Institute for Animal Research and Domestic Animal Genetics at the Agriculture Faculty at
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National Socialist past. His fall from political power was as sudden as his rise three weeks earlier. On or before 9 February 1963 his exclusion from the Central Committee and from the Politburo was confirmed to Politburo members. Reports appeared in
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There was a well worn path to be followed for East German politicians who found themselves suddenly disgraced and excluded from office: Karl-Heinz
Barstch played his part, with a carefully drafted statement of remorse: "Unfortunately I did not have he courage, when I joined the
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670:" in the later 1940s, and the case of Karl-Heinz Bartsch provided a welcome opportunity for western media to return one more time to the counter-attack, with (at least) one commentator reporting that eighteen years after the
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members. The article referred to here concluded with the reassuring thought that under these circumstances there was no reason for
Comrade Bartsch to give up all hope that he might one day be "rehabilitated".
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Germany's "newly founded Supreme Agricultural Authority"
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where at the start of 1963 he was also appointed to a professorship. Between 1962 and the start of 1963 he also served as East
Germany's Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Farm records and Forestry.
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795:"Leider hatte ich nicht den Mut, bei meinem Eintritt in die Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (1949) und bei späteren Anlässen offen meine Zugehörigkeit zur Waffen-SS zuzugeben."
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member. On leaving school he enrolled in a land management traineeship on the
Schwikow estate, while also working as a farm labourer. The country had by this time been at
695:(1949), nor subsequently, to come clean about my membership of the Waffen-SS". He also took the opportunity to refute reports that he had been a " Waffen-SS veteran" (
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Chairman at a Cattle
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938:""Wo ein Genosse ist, da ist die Partei!"? – Stabilität und Erosion an der SED-Parteibasis"
905:. Deutsche Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften, Berlin & Deutscher Bauernverlag.
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congress, on 21 January 1963 Karl-Heinz Bartsch was himself (s)elected as a member of the
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Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
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1097:Andreas Malycha (11 September 2014).
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603:habilitation (higher academic degree)
293:Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry
848:Siegfried Kuntsche; Wilfriede Otto.
532:"Aspirantur" (post-graduate student)
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761:Agricultural Production Cooperative
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457:industrial-scale ethnic cleansing
1144:Wolfram Otto (26 January 1996).
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1103:. De Gruyter. pp. 36–37.
996:"Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bartsch"
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752:"Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter"
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601:. In 1961 he received his
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1063:"NSDAP – Reue statt Treue"
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876:"Karl-Heinz Bartsch"
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584:"Frankenrind" cattle
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