German Communist Party Quotes
Ludendorff and Hitler have everything ready for a march into Saxony and Thuringia. The North German Fascist organizations ... have made all their preparations for the military overthrow of Berlin and Hamburg ... The officers of the German army are equipping the Fascists.
This would be the beginning of the Nazi regime in Germany.
German Communist Party [KPD], Declaration in the Rote Fahne, Communique to the membership, July 1923
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Although the Nazis railed against the Communists & Socialists, the potential opposition they feared the most was the middle class. See also {582967}.
Although Churchill, FDR, and a few other world leaders also recognized this reality, most people, even in America and Europe were not yet knowledgeable about the danger of Hitler and Nazi Germany. What is fascinating is that a theoretical scientists—one whose work had little to do with reality could be that perspicacious to identify major political trends. But Einstein was not only one of the world’s great scientific thinkers but he was a very sophisticated political and philosophical thinker.
The class distinction that existed in Germany after WWI was immense. The Ehrhardt Brigade was an elite military unit which functioned as a right wing death squad in the German Revolution in 1920. Unlike other German military divisions whose anthems glorified Germany and threatened other nations, the “enemy” of the Ehrhardt Brigade was the working class German. This was the marching song that they sang while marching through the country. They were one of the units that made the Swastika popular and they were the kind of unit that presaged Nazism coming shortly. Imagine the class hostility that must have existed for such an anthem to be socially and governmentally acceptable.
In 1918 the Treaty of Versailles—peace treaty ending WWI—was signed. Many Germans felt that their defeat in WWI forced them to sign the treaty which weakened Germany and assured that they would be a 2nd rate power thereafter. After that Germans blamed every negative aspect of their government, economy and society on the treaty that was “forced” on them. Nazism was a consequence of these feelings, and the Nazis adopted policies and practices to get around their anti-military obligations and have a strong government so that the allies could not enforce the treaty obligations on Germany.
Helms was then a young agent of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Berlin.
He had abdicated and was serving as the Governor of the Bahamas at the time. While the public was given the reason for has abdication as his love for a divorced woman, his pro Nazi viewpoints which were not publicly known in England, made him unacceptable and his treason a danger to England at war with Nazi Germany.
The Russian troops had surrounded Berlin and were closing on the bunker. Hitler announced that he intended to commit suicide. 8 days later he did.
Both of these famous Americans were admirers of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. They both accepted medals from the German dictator. And both of them were apologists for German aggression and urged the United States not to side with England and to stay neutral in the War. The next year Germany declared war on the United States.
Frau Wagner was one of several agents of Nazi Germany sent to the United States to develop good will for Germany and funds for Hitler. Anti-German feeling was still high from the First World War but America had its share of right wingers like Ford. Hitler and Ford were mutual admirers. See {586988} for Hitler’s view of Ford.
This was the origin of the ultra right wing British Fascistic.
Despite these instructions, the German communists tended to be very intellectual and idealistic. Although they did assassinate a few Fascist leaders, their opponents “outkilled” them over 15 to 1. Thus the Fascists set the stage for Hitler and the Nazis and although the German communists tried to raise the alarm, because communism itself was in disrepute in the West, the Allied nations kept looking at Germany as a civil war that would not affect any other nation. The World learned different.
The Second World War placed German Communists in a dilemma. The capitalistic democracies had been an enemy of communism, but the worst enemy was Fascism and there was nothing worse than German Fascism who victimized the German communists. Therefore, the democracies were not to be regarded as the enemy of German or world communism.
Within a few years the National Socialists of Germany had invaded most of the countries of Europe. The protestations of non aggressive intent have historically meant nothing whether it was the promises of Napoleon, Hitler or that of Hamas.
He defeated Adolf Hitler at the polls in 1932, but the next year he was compelled to yield to Nazi power and appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
Describing Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1918-1970
The German Communist Party (German: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, DKP) is a minor communist party in Germany. The DKP supports left positions and was an observer member of the European Left. At the end of February 2016 it left the European party.
