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Historical Critical Commentary on the Ernst Th\u00e4lmann Monument<\/h4>\n

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Ernst Th\u00e4lmann<\/h1>\n

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Ernst Th\u00e4lmann was born in Hamburg on 16 April 1886. He grew up in modest circumstances. As a child he had to work in his parents\u2018 coal shop and greengrocery. He left home at the age of 16. The great dock workers\u2018 strike of 1896-1897 was an eye-opener for him.<\/p>\n

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From 1903 onwards, Th\u00e4lmann was politically active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and from 1918 in the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). As an opponent of war, he deserted from military service in 1918. In 1920 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and quickly rose through the ranks. In 1925, the KPD elected him chairman and the Communist International (Comintern) appointed him to its Executive Committee. In the embezzlement affair involving John Wittorf in 1928, Th\u00e4lmann was forced to give up party office. t was only under pressure from Stalin that he was confirmed as party leader.<\/p>\n

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Th\u00e4lmann shaped the “Stalinisation\u201c process of the KPD, which began in the mid-1920s, and thus the purges within the party. In Th\u00e4lmann, Stalin found someone with whom he could control the KPD and tie it more closely to the policies of the Soviet Union. Th\u00e4lmann adopted the social fascism thesis from the Soviet Union and intensified the KPD\u2018s struggle against social democracy. This contributed significantly to the destabilisation of the Weimar Republic in its final phase.<\/p>\n

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As a result of the economic crisis in 1929 and social destitution, there were riots. The KPD under Th\u00e4lmann used them to fight against parliamentary democracy. Since the SPD defended democracy, it became the main enemy for the KPD. This contributed to the division of the workers\u2018 movement and thus to the weakening of the struggle against National Socialism. In the view of many historians, this created the conditions that enabled Hitler and the National Socialists to come to power.<\/p>\n

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Ernst Th\u00e4lmann had been a member of the Reichstag since 1924. As a well-known politician, he was arrested by the Berlin police on 3 March 1933. He was imprisoned in Berlin-Moabit, Hanover and Bautzen until his murder on 17 August 1944 in so-called \u201cprotective custody\u201d at Buchenwald concentration camp. During his eleven years in prison, he was not brought before any court. Efforts to secure his release or an exchange failed. Stalin himself did not campaign for his release.<\/p>\n

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