180:. Over the years the IMO acquired a considerable stockpile of weapons for future use. They also had access to significant supplies of effective poison, much of it in the form of gases acquired by Gronau in the electroplating workshops where he worked. Gronau was involved in constructing and installing secret radio transmitters and receivers. He was also among those who manufactured stabbing and cutting weapons for possible future use while in the camp.
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described him a "a passionate patriot and internationalist a true friend of the Soviet Union"..Unsere Partei trauert um einen
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till 28 February 1953. In 1953 Gronau was raised to the rank of colonel and given command of the
Blumberg Border Police unit. Further promotions within the border force followed. In 1957/58 he was appointed head of the border service department, and then deputy chief of staff to the
490:"Unsere Partei trauert um einen Genossen, der unermüdlich seine ganze Kraft, seine revolutionären Erfahrungen und Fähigkeiten für den Aufbau und den Schutz des Sozialismus einsetzte. Er war ein glühender Patriot und Internationalist, ein treuer Freund der Sowjetunion ...".
145:, he was able to support himself through casual work between 1933 and 1935. Gronau was arrested again in 1935; this time there was no quick release. Instead he faced trial, charged with high treason. On conviction, he was sentenced to a thirty-month jail term.
281:. Confirmation that those in charge had marked him out for fast track promotion (and of the quasi-military nature of the police service in the Soviet occupation zone) came at the end of the year: during 1948/49 Heinz Gronau took part in a special course in
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November 1950, promoted to the rank of "Inspector", Gronau was appointed to take charge of "Hauptabteilung I" The department was responsible for "defence and people's police preparedness/liaison", with the newly launched
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Margit Gronau's doctoral dissertation bore the title "Wissenschaftlich-technische
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was that there should be no more German armies. Quite soon, governments in Moscow and
Washington both modified their positions on this point, however. In the Soviet occupation zone (East Germany), when the
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