Whakakī i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I noho kaha tonu ngā taumahatanga o te Pakanga Makariri i te tīmatanga o te tekau tau 1950 me te whai wāhi o te Soviet i te tukinga nanakia o te
Ko te whakaekenga o Tiamana ki te Rawhiti i te Pipiri 1953 i kaha ake te kore whakawhirinaki i Tiamana ki te Hauauru o te (pro-Soviet) Communist Party i te pooti whanui o te tau 1953 i eke ki runga ake i te 2% o te pooti a motu. Koinei te horopaki, i te 27 o Hune 1954, i tangohia ai a Max Reimann raua ko Josef Ledwohn i o raua mana paremata. I mauheretia a Ledwohn i te marama o Akuhata 1954. Ko te whakapae i mauheretia ai ia ko te mea e mohiotia ana ko te "Te whakarite ki te mahi i te High Treason" ("Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat"). I muri tata mai i tana mauheretanga, ko tana wahine a Friedel Ledwohn, i puta mai i te atarangi, i whakatuwhera i tetahi hui a te roopu i Hamburg me te whiwhi (e ai ki tetahi purongo i roto i te nupepa rangapū) nga mihi mai i nga hoa hei wahine a te "patriot Josef Ledwohn" i herea.