Claim: Eberhard Heinrich (born 12 March 1926) is a  journalist, party officer and a member of the Party Politburo Agitation Committee who was conscripted for National Labour service where he deserted from the army in 1945 and spent 1945/46 as a Prisoner of War of  Germany.
Evidence: Eberhard Heinrich (born 12 March 1926) is a German journalist. Journalist
Party Officer He was a member of the Party Politburo Agitation Committee in the German Democratic Republic from 1965, and in 1981 he replaced Harri Czepuck as chairman of the country's national Union of Journalists. Heinrich deserted from the army in 1945 which was the year in which, in May 1945, the war ended. He spent 1945/46 as a Prisoner of War, held by the Americans, at the same time working at agricultural labour and relief work in . At this stage of the war, with the German army having suffered massive casualties, national labour service rapidly became conscription into the army even for boys who a few years earlier would have been considered too young to serve.