Aksel Larsen
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Aksel Larsen was a Danish politician who was chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark, and chairman and founder of the Socialist People's Party. He is remembered today for his long service in the Co
Aksel Larsen c 1959
Frederiksholms Kanal around Slotsholmen, where Larsen gave his row boat speech in 1931.
Aksel Larsen was captured in 1942 and sent to Sachsenhausen.
Sachsenhausen or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May. It mainly held poli
Aksel Larsen
…Socialist People's Party. He is remembered today for his long service in the Communist Party of Denmark, for his time as a concentration camp inmate at Sachsenhausen, and for being the founder of the Socialist People's Party. Initially a Social Democrat and then a Trotskyist, Larsen came to support Stalinism, and…
Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, 19 December 1938
Main entrance
Photo of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, by the Royal Air Force, dated 1943. Exact date of photo is unknown.
If a prisoner stepped inside or beyond the neutral zone they were immediately executed.