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Memorial Ernst Thälmann

Ernst Thälmann was a German politician in the Weimar Republic.
He was the chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was a candidate for the Reichstag elections in March 1933
He was arrested just before the elections and after 11 years in prison he was murdered in 1944. Presumably by a direct order from Hitler.

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  • Text: Johan Tjallingii
  • Photos: Johan Tjallingii

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