German Propaganda Archive

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GERMAN PROPAGANDA ARCHIVE (1955)

ON THOSE LEAVING THE GDR

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How should one evaluate those who leave the German Democratic Republic?

There can be only one answer. — Both from the moral standpoint as well as in terms of the interests of the whole German nation, leaving the GDR is an act of political and moral backwardness and depravity.

Those who let themselves be recruited objectively serve West German Reaction and militarism, whether they know it or not. Is it not despicable when for the sake of a few alluring job offers or other false promises about a “guaranteed future” one leaves a country in which the seed for a new and more beautiful life is sprouting, and is already showing the first fruits, for the place that favors a new war and destruction?

Is it not an act of political depravity when citizens, whether young people, workers, or members of the intelligentsia, leave and betray what our people have created through common labor in our republic to offer themselves to the American or British secret services or work for the West German factory owners, Junkers, or militarists? Does not leaving the land of progress for the morass of an historically outdated social order demonstrate political backwardness and blindness?

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full article: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/notiz3.htm

[fat mike]

its not clear what youre advocating here