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
Roter Frontkämpferbund
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The Roter Frontkämpferbund, usually called the Rotfrontkämpferbund, was a legally registered far-left paramilitary organization affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar Republi
Ernst Thälmann
…this new stance clarified it was impossible for the two parties to form a united front against the Nazi Party. Thälmann was leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkämpferbund. After the Nazi regime began, he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years. Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov…
RFB leaders Ernst Thälmann (left) and Willy Leow (right) in Berlin, June 1927
Assembly of the Roter Frontkämpferbund in Lustgarten, May 1928
RFB membership badges of the 1924 pattern (above) and of the 1926 pattern (below)
Ernst Thälmann in RFB uniform