GDR dictator Walter Ulbricht: New biography reveals strange sides. “Nobody has any intention of building a wall,” he claimed as head of state and party leader on June 15, 1961.
After a good two decades he was removed from power - and the end in 1971 was ignominious, his own people humiliated him until he died two years later after a stroke. The second volume of his biography shows him in all his power, how he dreams of a paradise for workers and farmers.