With the Soviet army advancing from the east , in 1944 the German leader declared that Breslau was a strategic " Festung " , to be defended at any cost . Hildegard Maria and her parents fled when the civilian population was evacuated on a cold January day a couple of weeks before the Soviet forces arrived . The Rauchfuß family settled initially in Bad Warmbrunn . By 1947 those identified as ethnic Germans had been transported on to Leipzig , where the Rauchfuß family made their home . Despite having been liberated from Nazi control by US forces in April 1945 , it had been agreed before the end of the war that the city was to be administered as part of the Soviet occupation zone in post war Germany , and the Soviets had been in control of it since July 1945 . Accordingly it was in the Soviet zone , relaunched in October 1949 as the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) , the Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß lived and built her career during the decades that followed . Her first job after arriving in Leipzig was as a book-keeper . It was Ernst Richard , a legendary senior editor at the Leipziger Zeitung , who spotted her talent as a writer . In 1948 she moved on to work in the literature department at MDR , the main radio broadcaster for the region . Four years later , in 1952 , she was dismissed without notice after two of her short stories had been broadcast on the RIAS , a Berlin-based radio station which operated under the " supervision " of the United States Information Agency
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Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß