deaths Writers from Hamburg Communist Party of Germany politicians Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians Members of the Provisional Volkskammer Cultural Association of the GDR members East German writers 20th-century German novelists German Anti-Francoists German male novelists Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union International Brigades personnel German people of the Spanish Civil War German people of World War II Nazi concentration camp survivors National Committee for a Free Germany members Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold Recipients of the Banner of Labor Communist writers Socialist realism writers