Byline: Associated Press
Swept up in the turmoil of 1930s Germany, a young communist agitator named Erich Mielke shot and killed two Berlin policemen during a demonstration.
Mielke fled to Moscow and returned to Berlin to become Communist East Germany's powerful secret police chief after the war.
On Tuesday, a city court convicted Mielke, now 85, of murder in the policemen's deaths. He was sentenced to six years in prison.
"Erich Mielke is entered in history books as one of the most dreaded dictators and police ministers," Chief Judge Theodor Seidel said.
Yet the Superior Court's verdict had little to do with Mielke's iron …
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