FRANZ DAHLEM AND FOREIGN COMMUNISTS

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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2016
• Case Number: F-2016-00848
• Publication Date: October 16, 1947

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'io At the time of the SED party convention in September ailengt:ay con-
ference took place between Communist delegates from foreign countrios
0/ end .e few prominent SED'function4r1es; no former SPD members were
present, Franz Dahlem, the only member of theeentr,AlZbecretariat
or-fartylixecutive(pmmittee to attu.d, alluded to this meeting dur-
,v/ in: a report to thedParty kiecutiveq_ommittegeflis remarks implied
th.:.t problems of the "international struggle against the advancing
' forces of monopolistic capitalism" had been a main topic of discus-
sion.
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Dahlem, as co-director of the organizational and ,administrative br_Inch
of the 3ED party government (Informationsebteilung),ppanages iiison
between the 3ED and foreign grouts of thp Communisttlerty. He hes
established contact with, French Communists whom he knew in Paris be-
fore the 3pan,i.sh(aivi1War and who-are now stationed in Berlin-rrohnau
with the French information service. These persons were .Able to fuv-
nish him with material on policies and attitudes of French Communist
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circles which was of value in the prepiration of propaganda in the -
weeks preceding the Saar elections.
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