The Americans did not occupy Aue administratively , but took some war booty from the inhabitants , including watches , binoculars , cameras and jewelry . When the Red Army took over the town from the Americans in accordance with the division of Germany into occupation zones after the Yalta Conference in June 1945 , Max Poepel was arrested by the Soviet occupation forces , despite his record and the support of some anti-fascists . Up to 1949 he was held in a number of NKVD special camps like Torgau , Mühlberg and Buchenwald . In 1950 , Poepel returned to Aue and was able to take over his garage business again , which had been run during his absence by its master mechanic , Fritz Taut . The garage 's most important work was to repair existing cars , since there were hardly any new cars . Poepel led this workshop until his death in 1966 . Max Poepel was married to Greta , née Schulz , and they had a daughter , Anneliese . Anneliese Poepel studied under the strict tutelage of her father 's car mechanic , passed the trade test and later received the master 's certificate . She married Erich Schmutzler , who manufactured cutting and punching tools in several of the rooms in his father-in-law 's workshop . After Poepel 's death in Aue on 28 August 1966 , Schmutzler at first allowed the garage to be run under by an employee and ran the cutter and punch business himself . When the number of employees working for independent artisans became regulated by the authorities , Erich Schmutzler finally gave up Max Poepel 's garage in 1969
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Max Poepel