The Communist Party of Germany, generally abbreviated as KPO or KPD, was a communist opposition organisation established at the end of 1928 and maintaining its existence until 1939 or 1940. After the
The KPO official organ (Gegen den Strom) continued to be produced after the Nazis' rise to power in 1933
August Thalheimer
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August Thalheimer was a German Marxist activist and theorist.
Communist Party of Germany (Opposition)
…in distinction to the Trotskyist or Trotskyist-sympathising Left Opposition and the pro-Comintern centre faction. It was led by Heinrich Brandler and August Thalheimer who had led the KPD between 1921 and 1923. They were expelled from the KPD after organising a meeting to combat what they saw as corruption in their…
Thalheimer (bottom row, center) among participants of the Reich Conference of the Spartacus League, 1 January 1916
Thalheimer in November 1923