Monday, February 7, 2011

Old Women And Mandingo

7th February 1933


Just eight days ago was it, that Hindenburg Adolf Hitler on 30 January as the Chancellor made. Upon the establishment of open had fascist dictatorship in Germany take the KPD to the new position and draw the position necessary conclusions for the further struggle of the party.

Today 78 years ago was therefore in sport goats neck in Zeuthen an illegal meeting of the Central Committee of about 40 participants, including Ernst Thalmann , Walter Ulbricht , Matthias theses, Ernst Schneller, Hans Beimler , John Schehr Wilhelm Pieck and instead. appointed to various venues in Berlin, where she received the address of the new focal point in the Treptow Observatory. From there it went, disguised as members of a sports club next to the venue.

Safe During the session from three groups of trusted party members, the environment of the restaurant. Shortly before 20.00

clock signaled the Support Groups the head of the event , Walter Ulbricht , was that the place under observation. Therefore, the meeting was closed without that could Ernst Thalmann finish his speech.
Some of the participants was driven to the waiting coach to Berlin, the others come with a boat on the lake (Great train) and from there penetrated to Berlin.

All participants reached their goal and when the SA was released about 22:00 clock, the local meeting was already empty.

The meeting was the last, could speak at the Ernst Thalmann to his comrades, on 03/03/1033, he fell into the hands of the police and was from then until his assassination on 18/08/1944 at Buchenwald concentration camp in various fascist jails and prisons. He is accused of treason, a process not occur.

At the meeting of the Central Committee in Ziegenhals Thalmann warned against illusions legal and made it clear that this government only through the revolutionary Fall could be replaced. He stressed that the overthrow of the Hitler government and the victory of the proletarian revolution are not necessarily one and the same. The
was initially the most important measure to the mass struggle and the united front to organize the workers. Thalmann proposed to develop a program of struggle. In it, the connection of the defense of economic interests of working people with the political struggle against the Hitler dictatorship are expressed: "We need to get that the chain of mass action and mass struggle against the fascist dictatorship in Germany is no longer tear off ... "

Thalmann
presented the task of this sub-fighting demonstrations and strikes to the mass political strike for the overthrow of the Hitler government develop and the Social Democratic workers to participate in joint operations, establishing a self-protection in the working-class neighborhoods and ... the win united front

Also on that day there was a mass meeting of about 200,000 people in Berlin's Lustgarten It was organized by the Iron Front, the militant organization of the SPD Otto catfish , former party chairman of the SPD said: "A barbed wire Prohibitions, penalties surrounds us, wherever we look. The constitutionally guaranteed rights, freedom of speech and writing are concentrated in a never before seen way. We remember the old saying: 'stern men do not rule for long,' "

Today we know, 12 years, very very long and they can claim millions of victims

From the above participants in the illegal Central Committee meeting in goat's neck. Wilhelm Pieck only and Walter Ulbricht survived Nazism. Schehr John was shot dead on 01 February 1934 "on the run," Hans Beimler died at 01 December 1936 from Madrid to barricades (like Ernst Busch sang) in defending the English Republic, Matthias Ernst theses and were faster on 11 October 1944 Sachsenhausen concentration camp together with 22 other officials of the illegal organization of the KPD shot of the camp.

Sources: "History of the German labor movement," Vol 5, p. 20 - 22, Dietz Verlag Berlin 1966,
"German resistance fighter 1933 - 1945", vol 2, p. 190, Dietz Verlag Berlin 1970



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