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246:, her father, was an active trades unionist and an instinctively adept political strategist. He was a carpenter by training and profession, but the year before Eleonore's birth he had taken a full-time position as party secretary with the by now increasingly mainstream
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on Soviet territory in June 1941, together with the ensuing slaughter and destruction, had evidently made him more mistrustful than ever of German people. But there were still a few German comrades whom he trusted.
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which replaced it. This brought her closer to the centre of political power under the highly centralised
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Foreign Trade". However, at the end of that year or the start of 1933 her contract was terminated "due to the insufficiency of language skills".
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was a correspondingly low-key affair. During the 1960s a slow and tentative rapprochement began, however, and in
October 1966 Eleonore Staimer became East Germany's first ever ambassador to
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became easier to predict, and over the next couple of years German defeat appeared ever more clearly on the horizon. In 1944 Eleonore became secretary to
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from Moscow in 1941, and had presumably got to know each other at that time. Available sources are almost entirely silent about both marriages.
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Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit (honor clasp)
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451:Comintern
336:Leo Flieg
314:in 1920.
286:from the
240:Germany's
238:, one of
181:(brother)
170:Relatives
103:Spouse(s)
1146:(1957).
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734:Belgrade
675:Schwerin
217:She was
176:(sister)
853:in gold
839:in gold
809:Germany
631:Stettin
521:Germany
420:Germany
392:into a
340:party's
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1180:Berlin
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667:Poland
581:After
564:Moscow
547:Stalin
529:Hitler
525:Moscow
514:school
484:Moscow
424:Moscow
416:Moscow
371:Moscow
367:Berlin
288:outset
264:Bremen
236:Bremen
190:(born
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865:Notes
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849:1976
842:1971
835:1966
829:1964
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583:1942
549:was
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459:МОПР
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225:Life
200:1945
106:1.
51:Died
29:Born
817:Ufa
807:to
587:war
504:Ufa
494:in
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