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extent which would, at that time, have been unthinkable in "the west". Budzislawski's grandson, Thomas Eckert (1953–1994), who also became a journalist, spent several years working on
Budzislawski's papers while preparing to submit a dissertation for a doctorate. Eckert himself died suddenly in 1994 and the dissertation was never completed, but his notes have provided a valuable resource for subsequent researchers on Hermann Budzislawski's sometimes difficult career between 1948 and his death in 1978.
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newspapers as mere sensation sheets, Budzislawski was not beyond a certain amount of socialist sensationalising of his own, evidenced by an above-average propensity to personalise and emotionalise his reports, while not hesitating on occasion to highlight the individual heroism of some pioneer of socialism selected for media exposure. Since
Budzislawski's death in 1978, and especially following
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life, Budzislawski was stripped of all his functions in
November 1950 because of suspicions triggered by the years he had spent in "the west". A period of virtual unemployment ensued. By the end of 1952, however, he had been reinstated, and the hiatus in his career is still (2015) not mentioned in
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There were those who believed they detected signs of "revisionist" liberalism, picked up during the years working as a journalist in New York, in his output, even while others celebrated
Budzislawski as the high-priest of East Germany's journalism establishment. Despite dismissing western tabloid
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the following year, more evidence has come to light concerning the extent of the difficulties experienced by
Budzislawski and other "remigrants" back from the USA to East Germany after 1945, in adapting to the needs of a state that needed to control and monitor the actions of its citizens to an
525:, in 1953 he had become Director of the Press History Institute and of the Institute for the Theory and Practice of Press work, along with his other posts and titles. At the same time, he continued to work as a political commentator on East German talk radio, also deputising briefly for
349:, and while available sources are silent over whether he ever actually joined the Communist Party, he certainly had secret contacts with German opposition politicians, including Communists, while he was at liberty in the French capital. In September 1939 the French authorities banned
415:, between 1941 and 1945 described in sources variously as her assistant, her secretary and her ghostwriter. Between 1943 and September 1948 he also wrote as a columnist and commentator for the liberal/leftwing New York-based "Overseas News Agency", using the pseudonym "
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Budzislawski's activities, and in 1935 he was stripped of his German citizenship, taking Czechoslovak citizenship in 1938. By the time he arrived in Paris in 1938 Paris had become the de facto headquarters of the exiled
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