Karl Kilbom
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Karl Kilbom was a Swedish politician and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Sweden.
Karl Kilbom c. 1937
K. Kilbom - membership card of the Comintern
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.
Karl Kilbom
…factions within the Communist parties. Back in Moscow in 1926, Kilbom reported to Joseph Stalin about his work in Germany and expressed his concern about Ernst Thälmann not being a capable leader for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Stalin met the allegations against Thälmann with silence, and Kilbom would soon…
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