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Committee told me he was present when Ulbricht was
informed about my slapping the West German Chancellor.
"It was the
anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, November 7. We were having a meeting in
Ulbricht's office when a secretary interrupted to whisper to Ulbricht that you
had just insulted Kiesinger. I clearly remember his remark: 'She's a brave
woman. We ought to support her.'"
The favoritism shown me, more or less
to the irritation of the West German Communist Party, was thus due to
Ulbricht's attitude.
In the past two years, however, I had become far
too used to open defiance to feel completely at ease in any political
atmosphere. The compliments, the friendly smiles, and the disarming words
addressed to me by the East German officials made me feel good, but they did
not alter my conviction that here in the heart of the "Socialist State of the
German nation" I represented neither of the two ideologies. So far as I was
concerned, the German nation, because of being divided, could find expression
only in terms of political morality.
Still, it was a splendid occasion,
the kind young girls dream of. Movies were taken of me dancing with a snowy
haired Soviet general – Chuikov, I think – whose uniform was
encrusted with gold braid and studded with decorations. The little six-year-old
German girl who used to stare in terror at the "Cossacks" invading the village
of Sandau, where my mother and I had taken refuge in April 1945, would never
have imagined that one day she would be dancing with one of the Red Army
chiefs. Total commitment to a cause is impossible; there is always at least one
chink through which one contemplates, with a certain mild fascination, one's
own adventure.
Toward the end of 1969, I decided to deal with subjects
other than French problems in my articles for DVZ. I left for The Hague, where
the summit conference of the Six was being held, for I wanted to be present
when Brandt made his grand entrance on the European scene to make the Dutch
aware that German youth was behind the Chancellor.
The first
inter-German summit meeting was to take place on March 19 at Erfurt, in East
Germany. I was determined to be present on this unprecedented occasion, but my
accreditation from
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