Following the 1956 Party Congress in Moscow, at which Comrade Kruschev's so-called "secret" speech greatly alarmed the Stalinist traditionalists who controlled East Germany, Herta Geffke and her (party commission) were responsible for a large number of party resolutions and retributive actions that some forty years later (after &lt;a href="Die%20Wende"&gt;the changes of 1989/90&lt;/a&gt;) would trigger judicial rehabilitation decisions.