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How did the KPD relate to the German state during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?
Between August 1939 and June 1941, Germany and the USSR had the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. During this time, many USSR-oriented communist parties in Europe and North America were (forced to be) rather ...
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Communist resistance groups in the Nazi German military
In a recent newspaper article about a Jewish man concealing his identity in Norway during the five years of Nazi German occupation, a reference is made to a "secret Communist group" among German ...
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Did technical managers have to join the Nazi party?
In the Soviet Union a person who was rising in technical management (say, becoming the director of a plant) was usually expected to join the Communist Party as a pre-requisite of getting the job.
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Were dissident KPD members ratted out to the Gestapo?
In her essay "Gestern Morgen", Bini Adamczak tells a story from Manes Sperbers "Wie eine Träne im Ozean." I'll paraphrase:
In 1935, a member of the German Communist Party (KPD) finds himself
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