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“Fascinating material . . . This book will likely be the last word and the standard work on the Thälmann myth and its role in East German history.” —Catherine Epstein, author of Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths Throughout the 1920s, German politician and activist Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944) was the leader of the largest Communist Party organization outside the Soviet Union. Thälmann was the most prominent left-wing politician in the country’s 1932 election and ran third in the presidential race after Hitler and von Hindenberg. After the Nazi Party’s victory in that contest, he was imprisoned and held in solitary confinement for eleven years before being executed at Buchenwal...
LaPorte provides a critical and analytical study of communism in interwar Germany and shows how Thalmann became the symbol of communist antifascist resistance after 1933."
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Diese Sammlung bietet eine breit angelegte Neubewertung des Lebens und der historischen Rolle von Ernst Thälmann, dem Vorsitzenden der Deutschen Kommunistischen Partei in der Zeit 1925 bis zu seiner Verhaftung von den Nazis 1933. Eine bedeutende Figur zu Lebzeiten - Thälmann war KPD-Führer während einer schicksalsschweren Zeit in der deutschen Geschichte - Thälmanns politische Rolle war keinesfalls auf die Zeit vor seinem Mord im Jahr 1944 begrenzt. In der DDR wurde er zum unangreifbaren Märtyrer im antifaschistischen Kampf erhoben. Die Beiträge in der ersten Hälfte des Bandes unternehmen anhand erst neulich zugänglicher Materialien aus den Archiven eine kritische Auseinandersetzung...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Ernst Heilmann, Ernst Thalmann, Frank Pickersgill, Georges Mandel, George Rodocanachi, Henri Maspero, Hermann Leopoldi, Jozef Biniszkiewicz, Jura Soyfer, Karl Ernst Krafft, Karl Mayr, Karol Kulisz, Maria Forescu, Maurice Halbwachs, Otto Felix Kanitz, Paul-Emile Janson, Paul Schneider (pastor), Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Richard Steidle, Robert Benoist, Romeo Sabourin, Rudolf Breitscheid, Werner Scholem. Excerpt: Ernst Thalmann (16 April 1886 - 18 August 1944) was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republ...
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