War ended in May 1945 , and there was a widespread belief that this should mean an end of one-party dictatorship in Germany . In Berlin , on 15 June 1945 Emma Sachse took part in the ( re - ) founding of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and the establishment of the Free German Trade Union Federation ( '' " Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund " '' / FDGB ) . She then returned to Altenburg on 29 June 1945 and resumed her political engagement . Altenburg had been freed from Nazi rule by American troops on 15 April 1945 . However , by that time the US president and the Soviet leader had already agreed a post war division of Germany which left the central portion of the country defined as the Soviet occupation zone . On 1 July 1945 US troops withdrew and the Red army moved in : Altenburg , like the rest of Thuringia , was to be administered under the Soviet Union . She joined the board of Thuringia 's social insurance organisation , the " Victims of Fascism " committee , the Refugee Committee and the Nutrition Council . Her personal experience of life in Nazi Germany made her a forceful advocate in favour of the contentious merger of the former Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party which took place ( at least in respect of the Soviet occupation zone ) in April 1946 . ( There was a widespread belief that political division on the left had opened the way for the Nazi take-over in 1933 . ) She became a leading official of the new Socialist Unity Party ( '' " Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands " '' / SED ) in Thuringia , and a member of the large party executive in Berlin . She led the Anti-fascist Women 's Committee in Altenburg and in the surrounding district . Till September 1948 she also had a position as the regional women 's advisor for the Democratic Women 's League ( '' " Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands " '' / DFD ) . Until the 1952 abolition , in what be then had become the German Democratic Republic , of regional parliaments , Sachse also resumed and progressed the work she had undertaken in the Thüringia Parliament / Landtag , concentrating as before on social issues and women 's work
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Emma Sachse