 Complete the following phrase:  Karl Wilhelm Fricke was permanently affected by his fathers fate. The son was unusual among his contemporaries in refusing to join the a hrefFree20German20YouthFree German Youth FDJ  Freie Deutsche Jugenda, which was in effect the youth wing of the regions a hrefSocialist20Unity20Party20of20GermanySocialist Unity Party of Germany SED  Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlandsa. The SED, formed only in April 1946, had already positioned itself as the ruling party, while the entire Soviet occupation zone had by October 1949 reverted to one- party government and redefined itself as the German Democratic Republic. Frickes refusal to join the ruling partys youth wing left him with no opportunity formally to complete his secondary education. For a time he nevertheless worked as a language teaching assistant at the school where earlier his father had worked: there was a desperate shortage of Russian language teachers and Russian was the foreign language which Fricke had by now sufficiently mastered. Life as a teaching assistant came to an end on 27 February 1949 when he was arrested at the school by two policemen, after a colleague had denounced him for criticising the Russians. The charge he faced was the standard one of conspiracy to commit high treason. The police station in which he was held was a former villa that had not yet been converted and fortified, and he knew one of the arresting policemen from their childhoods. While awaiting the commissar responsible for processing his case he managed to escape. That night he crossed the at that stage still relatively porous 