Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: He tangata no Berlin, he mema tuarua hoki o te Rōpū Communist o Tiamana, ko Mielke tētahi o ngā kaituku patu i te 1931 i ngā kaipupuri pirihimana o Berlin
Ko Paul Anlauf rāua ko Franz Lenck. Whai muri i tana mohiotanga kua ora tetahi kaiwhakaatu, i mawhiti a Mielke i te hopukanga ma te rere ki te Soviet Union, i reira i whakauruhia ai ia e te NKVD. Ko ia tetahi o nga tino tangata i roto i te whakangaromanga o nga Communists Tiamana o Moscow i te Great Purge me te tukino kino o nga whakapae anti-Stalinists i roto i te International Brigade i te Pakanga Tangata Paniora.