3162095v1 - Segal Master Plan Document/SPD: COPY ONLY!!!!

Between the bitter December, 1945, conference of the KPD and the Soviet Zone SPD [p. 301-02], at which the two-party organizational merger received a formal boost, a heated political struggle occurred among the Social Democrats. Rank-and-file SPD members in Berlin and Rostock immediately demanded a popular vote on the proposed political merger. ................
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