Original: Von Krosigk was also Foreign Minister in the provisional government, an office which had next to no purpose given the state of Germany and its administration at the time.
Simplified: He was one of the first to talk about an Iron Curtain coming down across Europe, in a broadcast to the German people on May 2, 1945, a phrase which he had picked up from an article by Joseph Goebbels (Joseph Goebbels, Das Jahr 2000, Das Reich, February 25, 1945, pp.