The leader of the German Communist Party!

In the book by H.S. Hegner " Die Reichskanzler von 1933-1945 anfang und ende des Dritten Reiches "

The communists got in the 1932 election 4,980,000 votes,Hindenburg 18,650,000 and Hitler 11,400,000 votes!

Think about that!



Hopefully more tomorrow..well, actually today as it is 25 past midnight in Finland now!

Ok, good night from Finland!

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Was he murdered in 1934 like a lot of other political opposers.

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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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*BUMP*

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Buchenwald, 18. August 1944

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"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"
(President Merkin Muffley in "Dr. Strangelove")

Here is an excellent biography and good pictures of him:

Ernst Thälmann

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun