16.4.1886 - 18.8.1944

March 3, 1933

Arrest of Ernst Thälmann. Thälmann had been born in Hamburg, Germany on April 16, 1886. He joined the communist party in 1920. He ran for president of the Weimar Republic in 1925 and 1932 against Paul von Hindenburg. When Hitler came to power in 1933 he began attacks on the Communist Party at once. Thälmann was arrested on March 3, 1933 and was executed in the camp at Buchenwald (?) in August of 1944.

One of the Buchenwald inmates, Armin Walther, said in an interview for the Buchenwald Report, "If the Nazi murderers maintain that Ernst Thälmann, the leader of the KPD, was also killed during this bombardment, that is a brazen lie. Thälmann was never in Buchenwald and was surely murdered by the SS criminals in another location." The Sachsenhausen Museum claims that Thälmann was executed in Sachsenhausen in 1944.

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Sachse.../Monument.html

So either Buchenwald or Sachsenhausen ??!

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