The Medal for Fighters Against Fascism was an award of the German Democratic Republic given to people who had been active in the German Resistance against Nazism.
Medal for Fighters Against Fascism (Obverse)
Heinrich Rau
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Heinrich Gottlob "Heiner" Rau was a German communist politician during the Weimar Era, a commander in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, and a leading East German statesman after
Medal for Fighters Against Fascism
…1958: Karl Raddatz 1958: Heinrich Rau 1958: Elfriede Paul…
Rau in 1951
Stuttgart's New Castle c. 1916. The upper parts of the then-adjacent Wilhelm Palais can be seen behind the right wing of the castle.
Heinrich Rau, Richard Staimer and Kurt Frank in Spain c. 1937–1938
Guarded by French soldiers, Republican refugees arrive at the Argelers concentration camp, March 1939