Communist Party of Germany
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The Communist Party of Germany was the major far-left political party in the Weimar Republic during the interwar period, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in Allied
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht
Members of the Reichstag faction of the KPD c. 1921. Sitting from left to right: Joseph Herzfeld, Clara Zetkin, Emil Eichhorn, Georg Berthelé. Standing from left to right: Max Heydemann, Walter Stoecker, Wilhelm Koenen, Wilhelm Bartz, Heinrich Malzahn, Paul Frölich.
KPD in Essen, 1925
Ernst Thälmann
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Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann was a German communist politician, revolutionary, and leader of the Communist Party of Germany from 1925 to 1933.
Communist Party of Germany
…usually polled between 10 and 15 percent of the vote and was represented in the national Reichstag and in state parliaments. Under the leadership of Ernst Thälmann from 1925 the party became thoroughly Marxist-Leninist and more loyal to the politics of the Soviet Union, and from 1928 it was largely influenced and…
Thälmann (second row from the top, far right) at Volksschule c. 1900
Thälmann and his wife Rosa, 1915
Thälmann's first foreign passport, 1921
Thälmann on the cover of Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung, March 1925