About the German historian and communist Wolfgang Ruge (1917-2006) born in Neukölln, Berlin, who was active in the struggle against the Nazi takeover of power, fled with his brother to Moscow in 1933, became Soviet citizen in 1936, regarded by the NKVD as suspicious German and therefore moved to a kolchos in Kazakhstan 1941, and later studied in Swerdlovsk. In 1956 he migrated to Potsdam, GDR, became an East German citizen studied history and wrote books about the Weimar Republic.—DEFA