In April and May 1968, two leading employees of the VEB Zementanlagenbau (ZAB) in Dessau travelled from the GDR to Nuevitas, Cuba. ZAB Dessau was in the middle of building a cement plant near the small Cuban town in the province of Camagüey in the East of the country. The reason for the trip was the commissioning of the first kiln line of the plant, but the main purpose was to check “contradictory reports and messages” about a “complicated political-ideological and technical situation” at the...
