Unity SPD – KPD (1946)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 20M
Director : Kurt Maetzig
Synopsis
Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that would lead to the creation of the Socialist Unity Party that would rule the soon-to-be-created East Germany until 1989.
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