By this time Kreutzner was 21 . The region surrounding Saalfeld had been liberated by United States 2nd Infantry Division . The US military administration and their British allies gave Kreutzner his first post-war assignment . He was allocated responsibility for managing food distribution in four districts . In July 1945 , the area was handed over to the Soviet administration as had been agreed at the Yalta Conference . From October 1949 the area became part of the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) . In July 1945 Kreutzer and his father , Paul , met Walter Ulbricht , who later , as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party , became East Germany 's first leader . Ulbricht had returned to Germany from Moscow on 30 April 1945 , with a group of other German exiles known as the Ulbricht Group . At their first meeting , Kreutzer and his father told Ulbricht of their plans to create a local League of Democratic Socialists . The Kreutzer 's were co-opted as members of the Social Democratic Party regional executive . With others , they set up a Saalfeld branch of the party
Yalta Conference
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Hermann Kreutzer