Olga Benário Prestes
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Olga Benário Prestes was a German-Brazilian communist militant executed by Nazi Germany.
Olga Benário in 1928
Olga Benário Prestes during her imprisonment in Brazil in 1936. She was shortly afterwards deported to Germany and executed by Nazi Regime in Bernburg Euthanasia Centre
Olga Benário Prestes
"Die Tragende" ("The bearer") by Will Lammert, memorial created after Benário Prestes at Ravensbrück KZ
Otto Braun (communist)
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Otto Braun was a German communist journalist and functionary of the Communist Party of Germany with a long and varied career. His most significant role was as a Comintern agent sent to China in 1934 t
Olga Benário Prestes
…putting up posters) led local police to register her as a "communist agitator". At the age of 18 she moved with her lover and fellow party member Otto Braun to Berlin where she continued her activities in the working class district of Neukoln. In this period she was arrested on charges of ‘preparations for…
Otto Braun (Li De) in China
Braun (center) at a meeting of German and Soviet writers and scholars at the Academy of Arts in East Berlin, 22 October 1954