 Complete the following phrase:  Nevertheless, reports coming out of East Germany were leading to heightened cold war tensions, as part of which, in West Germany, the Communist Party was becoming increasingly marginalised. In November 1951 a criminal investigation was launched by the West German government against Paul because of his anti-constitutional politics verfassungsfeindliche Politik. The West German chancellor signed the authorisation for the process on 20 November 1951 because Paul had described the West German government as a puppet government and discussed illegal and warlike measures. It was also reported that Paul had been distributing Communist Party leaflets urging supporters that the  ... hour has come for the German People to take responsibility Die Stunde der Verantwortung des deutschen Volkes ist gekommen. His political agitation had already triggered an application from a regional court to lift his parliamentary immunity two months earlier, in August 1951. At the end of 1951 he reacted by temporarily removing himself across the still relatively porous 