Working For The Soviet Union
In 1932 Mielke attended the Comintern's Military Political school and later the Lenin School and was subsequently recruited into the NKVD. Although Moscow's German Communist community was decimated during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, Mielke survived and was promoted. In a handwritten autobiography prepared after World War II, Mielke recalled,
"During my stay in the S.U. (Soviet Union), I participated in all Party discussions of the K.P.D. and also in the problems concerning the establishment of socialism and in the trials against the traitors and enemies of the S.U."
Among the German communists executed during the Great Purge were Mielke's former mentors Heinz Neumann and Hans Kippenberger.
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