KgU - Combat Group of Inhumanity
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | KgU - Combat Group of Inhumanity |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joachim Hadaschik |
| script | Joachim Hadaschik |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| music | Kurt Grottke |
| camera |
Hans-Ulrich Männling Wolfgang Randel |
| cut | Ella Ensink |
| occupation | |
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Gerry Wolff : Speaker | |
KgU - Kampfgruppe der Inhumenlichkeit (Combat Group of Inhumanity) is a documentary by the DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries by Joachim Hadaschik from 1956 .
action
Hundreds of thousands have already seen an exhibition by the Ministry for State Security of the GDR with the title "Agents, Spies, Saboteurs Unmasked" . It shows the work of the security organs of the GDR in the fight against the espionage and agent centers in West Germany and West Berlin . This exhibition is the basis for this film.
A member of the State Security in uniform explains the exhibits behind him to a group of exhibition visitors. According to him, one of the most dangerous, meanest and most unscrupulous centers of the political underworld is the so-called Combat Group against Inhumanity (KgU). One member of this group was the driver of the plant manager of VEB Secura Werke Berlin, Johann Burianek , whose anti-state activities were explained in more detail. With his company car he transported inflammatory pamphlets against the GDR from West Berlin to East Berlin and also used it for other actions, for which he received orders from the KgU. This included throwing tire killers on the country roads to disrupt transportation. Also to the III. World Festival of Youth and Students was supposed to trigger panic , for which purpose stink bombs and incendiary devices were also used. Another task was to blow up a railway bridge in Berlin-Spindlersfeld together with other members of the KgU , which could be prevented by a patrol of the railway police . Burianik was sentenced to death for this by the Supreme Court of the GDR, chaired by Hilde Benjamin .
Many agents were recruited from the refugee GDR citizens in the relocation camps. The former main agent of the KgU Rupprecht Wagner, who moved to the GDR, confirmed that the head of the terrorist department Gerd Baitz had commissioned several full-time employees to question refugees for the purpose of recruiting new agents in the Marienfelde emergency reception center . This also included Kurt Mister alias Malik, who not only worked for the KgU, but also for the American secret service. One of the agents he recruited was a veterinary student from Leipzig who, after his arrest in the GDR, testified in front of the camera about the tasks he had received, that he had received poison from Milster, alias Malik, with which he was supposed to poison meat in the Leipzig slaughterhouse.
The agent network extended over the entire GDR. For example, a 3000 ton forging press was to be destroyed in the Ernst Thälmann plant in Magdeburg . Gerhard Benkowitz received the order to blow up the Bleilochtalsperre , which would have meant the death of tens of thousands of people, millions of dollars would have been destroyed. In the nationally owned Gut Lanke (Wandlitz) arson, the entire harvest was destroyed in flames. In Volkseigenen tire plant Fiirstenwalde burned 15000 tire arsonists Lucke from Fiirstenwalde / Spree was taken.
But there are also examples of former employees of the KgU who have separated from this association. For example, a young person went to the KgU's missing persons office three times because he was looking for his father. Then he was handed a fire package at Kurfürstendamm 106 to set fire to the VEB Bau-Union Berlin's cultural center in Berlin-Schöneweide . According to his own statement, he could not do that and turned himself in to the German People's Police . The actor Joachim Schmidt from Erfurt said that he would have saved himself and his wife a lot of trouble if he had broken with the KgU earlier. Another former employee of the KgU, after his marriage and the birth of his child, could no longer reconcile with his conscience to work longer for the combat group and also turned himself over to the security organs of the GDR. The measures taken by the KgU are also directed against the people of West Germany, as written documents have proven. The singer Rudi Schuricke was spied on because he had friends in the GDR.
Another means of the Cold War were balloons with a diameter of up to 18 meters and filled with highly explosive hydrogen gas , which carried inflammatory writings and incendiary devices. These balloons threaten the lives of aircraft passengers and people on the ground. Film footage shows a balloon with its heavy load that crashed from a great height, 150 meters away from a farm where children were playing. But less violent actions were also carried out. Before the Berlin Foreign Ministers' Conference, for example, KgU employees wrote to the American Foreign Minister John Foster Dulles as a citizen of the GDR that they agreed with the policies of the United States , which prompted him to speak for all Germans.
Production and publication
The dramaturge was Harry Hornig . The music interpreter was Rudi Schuricke . The composer of the festival song In August the roses bloom was Günter Friedrich
The black and white film, shot under the working title Warning , premiered on February 3, 1956. The film was broadcast on July 15, 1956 by the German TV broadcaster DFF .
The following overlay can be read right at the beginning of the film: Manufactured according to documents from the Supreme Court and the Ministry for State Security of the German Democratic Republic
Web links
- KgU - Combat Group of Inhumanity at filmportal.de
- KgU - Combat Group of Inhumanity at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from July 15, 1956, p. 4