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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786146303321

Autore

Lemmons Russel <1962->

Titolo

Hitler's Rival [[electronic resource] ] : Ernst Thälmann in Myth and Memory / / Russel Lemmons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky, : University Press of Kentucky, c2013

ISBN

0-8131-4091-9

0-8131-4131-1

1-299-05092-1

0-8131-4092-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 p.)

Disciplina

335.43092

Soggetti

Propaganda, Communist - Germany (East)

National socialism

Socialism - Germany - History - 20th century

Communism - Germany - History - 20th century

Communists - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany Politics and government 1918-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Heil Moskau! -- Ernst Thälmann must be won like a battle! -- We are building upon the foundations created by Ernst Thälmann -- A great national deed -- Out of your sacrificial death grows our socialist deed -- We can look forward to a happy future -- Ernst Thälmann is still among us -- Not all who have died are dead -- Imprisoned, murdered, besmirched -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout the 1920s, German politician and activist Ernst Th?lmann (1886--1944) was the leader of the largest Communist Party organization outside the Soviet Union. Th?lmann 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



Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 under the F?hrer's direct orders.Hitler's Rival examines how the Communist Party graduall