Fighting for Peace I've been reading a closely documented booklet
just published by the Independent Information Centre which gives quite amazing ' and irrefutable evidence of the extent of East German rearmament, Civil War in the Making: 'The Combat Groups of the Working Class.' As Lord Morrison says in his introduction, there's little difference between the SS and this sinister militia corresponding in concept to the old Marxist idea of the 'armed working class' and provided with medium weapons, field guns, even armoured cars. Responsible solely to the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party, the strength of the Kampfgruppen is now over 350,000 men—more than the entire aggre- gate of the Bundeswehr, and existing in addition to those other infamous 'organs of State power' of the DDR, the Volkspolizei and the Volks- armee. As the Kampfgruppen wouldn't come under the terms of a conventional disarmament agreement, the lesson of this timely booklet is plain. Today Ulbricht's favourite hoodlums 'guard the invincibility of the DDR' by killing eighteen-year-olds in the Potsdamer Platz; to- morrow, in the event of any demilitarisation of West Berlin or West Germany their task would be more ambitious—securing 'the victory of Socialism in the whole of Germany.'
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