Bernhard Fisch

During the Second World War he was drafted to the Wehrmacht and fought in East Prussia and in Upper Bavaria.

He acquired a full-time job at the socialist party organisation for youths, Freie Deutsche Jugend, but lost it due to an infringement against cult of personality („Verstoß gegen den Personenkult“).

), published about methods of teaching foreign languages[2] and was a scientific assistant for six years in Gera.

At a 2004 conference of communists in Thuringia, he presented a book of 1945, containing pictures of the East Prussian landscape, which had to be published without any geographic names, as these were banned by censors.

Taking advantage of his knowledge of the Russian language and former Soviet archives being opened at the time, he published about the expulsion of Germans,[5] the role of Stalin in creation of the Oder-Neisse line,[6] the anti-German propaganda of Ilja Ehrenburg, and mainly the Nemmersdorf massacre.