312:, played no role in the hospitals infrastructure of Berlin. It was reserved for senior members of the East German government. For the next forty years there would be rumours and reports (appearing outside East Germany) that its patients enjoyed a superior quality of treatment, with access to drugs from the west not normally made available for treating East German patients and even, as they recovered, access to West German newspapers. It was also noted that patients at the government hospital seemed never to die: in reality, when they did die, the bodies were removed using a well concealed entrance at the back of the building, far from prying eyes. When, unavoidably, patients died under circumstances that might embarrass the authorities, the hospital was able to put an appropriate gloss on the event. The suicide in 1965 of
375:, of which the DFD was one. This was seen as a way to enhance the legitimacy of the overall government structure. By 1990 she had become one of the longest serving Volkskammer members. Although membership of the national legislature was not unimportant, the focus of political power in the Soviet style "Communist" states of Central Europe after 1945 lay not with the parliament nor, indeed, with government ministers, but with the
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which opened the way to a university level education. In 1929 she embarked on her medical studies, still in Berlin. In 1936 she passed her state medical exams and received her doctorate (in medicine).
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