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Originally Posted by kaki3152
Dan, I believe it's more complicated than that. If you read his book "I Joined the Russians" (Yale:1953) you can see that he was trying to figure out an exit from the Russians.
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Kaki, thank you for your comment. I have not read that book, so will exercise caution in my reply. It is entirely possible that he found it difficult to escape from East Germany. Nevertheless, in later life he went so far as to become a member of the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism), the successor party to the one that controlled East Germany, in the Bundestag. Not a morally consistent position and one of many events in his life which raise grave questions about his moral character.
If you are interested, there is a recent book about the man by a German academic, entitled
Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel. Eine Einzelfallstudie zum Nationalkomitee „Freies Deutschland“. It is available online, see
https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/...ex/docId/45434
Merry Christmas!
Dan