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.
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
Walter Ulbricht
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Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht was a German communist politician and revolutionary. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany and later in the early devel
Ernst Thälmann
…Molotov originally sought Thälmann's release; after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, efforts to that end were abandoned, while Thälmann's party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Thälmann was shot dead on Adolf Hitler's personal order in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944. Thälmann was…
Ulbricht in 1960
Ulbricht, age 14, at the beginning of his joinery apprenticeship
Ulbricht's official Reichstag portrait, 1930
Ulbricht (standing in the background) speaking at a debate between himself and Joseph Goebbels in the Friedrichshain. Goebbels is visible on the left in the foreground. The debate ended in a massive brawl between Nazis and the KPD.