War ended in May 1945 and Fiedler , remaining in the region of his birth , took a job as an assistant mechanic with the Siemens factory in Werdau . In 1946 he entered an apprenticeship with the Social Insurance Office in Zwickau , for which he subsequently worked as an employee . Although the Americans had reached Zwickau in the final stages of the war , the leading winning powers had already agreed new frontiers and military occupation zones for Germany , and the Americans withdrew to Bavaria after a few weeks leaving the entire central portion of what had been Germany administered as the Soviet occupation zone . In 1946 Heinz Fiedler joined , briefly , the German Communist Party . Politically there had initially been a widespread belief that military defeat , by destroying the Hitler regime , had put an end to one-party government in Germany , and in the summer As matters turned out 1946 was also the year in which the basis for a return to one-party government was established , with the contentious merger , in April of that year , of the Communist Party and , within the Soviet occupation zone , of the more moderately left-wing Social Democratic Party , forming together the Socialist Unity Party ( SED / '' Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands '' ) . Heinz Fiedler , like many German communists , lost little time in signing his party membership over to the new SED . In 1949 he took a clerical job with the " Ernst Grube " truck and bus factory in Werdau , where he also became Secretary of the Free German Youth , which was the youth wing of the ruling SED party in what had become , in October 1949 , the German Democratic Republic , comprising the entire area that had previously been administered as the Soviet Occupation zone . The young country retained Soviet military and political sponsorship , and many of its constitutional arrangements and political power structures were directly modeled on those of the Soviet Union . In 1952 Fiedler switched to the Zwickau district office of the Ministry for State Security . In 1954 he was transferred to Department II ( Counterespionage ) of the Stasi regional leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt ( as Chemnitz was then known )
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