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Walter Ulbricht, the man that had a large impact on the history of the German Democratic Republic. This video will go through the highlights of his life. Sources used: Walter Ulbricht: Eine deutsche Biografie - Mario Frank () Credits for photographs and other material shown in the video: • Fotothek df pk 0000079 080 - By Deutsche Fotothek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Willi Stoph, Lotte Ulbricht, and Walter Ulbricht, 9 March 1967- By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-F0309-0201-001 / Kohls, Ulrich / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Walter and Lotte Ulbricht at the Leipzig Trade Fair, 1964 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C0906-0010-021 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Ulbricht (standing in the background) speaking at a joint event of the KPD and NSDAP on 22 January 1931. Joseph Goebbels is visible on the left in the foreground. • Mao Zedong, Stalin, Ulbricht and Tsedenbal at Stalin's 70th birthday celebrations in Moscow, December 1949 • Ulbricht visiting a collective farm in Trinwillershagen in January 1953 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-18231-0003 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Walter Ulbricht on the cover of Time magazine- 13 July 1953 - By Boris Chaliapin - Time Magazine, Public Domain, • Ulbricht's state funeral in East Berlin on 7 August 1973 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-M0807-069 / Reiche, Hartmut / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Ulbricht beim III. Deutschen Turn- und Sportfest in Leipzig 1959 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-66400-0142 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Zaisser with Ulbricht - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-20115-0006 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Herrnstadt with Ulbricht - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-12425-0013 / Sturm, Horst / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Lotte Ulbricht - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-78024-0025 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Karl Schirdewan - Von Deutsche Fotothek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Wilhelm Zaisser - Von Bundesarchiv, B 285 Bild-04246 / Unbekannt / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Otto Grotewohl - Von Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-19204-3150 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Founding SED - Von Deutsche Fotothek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Wilhelm Pieck - Von Deutsche Fotothek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Ernst Wollweber - Von Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-08658-0006 / Rudolph / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Erich Honecker 1976 - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R0518-182 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Erich Honecker 1976 Color - Von Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R1220-401 / Autor/-in unbekannt / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Walter Ulbricht 1950 - Von Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-08618-0005 / Sturm, Horst / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Walter Ulbricht in Stalinstadt - Von Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-19521-0005 / Horst Sturm / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Stalin portrait in Leipzig 1950 - Von Deutsche Fotothek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Anton Ackermann 1950 - Von Deutsche Fotothek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Elli Schmidt 1952 - Von Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-13891-0005 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Elli Schmidt - By Deutsche Fotothek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Rudolf Herrnstadt 1951 - Von Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-12425-0013 / Sturm, Horst / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Rudolf Herrnstadt 1952 Sketch - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-15475-0013 / Quaschinsky, Hans-Günter / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, • Nikita Khrushchev - By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B0628-0015-035 / Heinz Junge / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de,
