Rudolf Breitscheid
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Rudolf Breitscheid was a German politician and leading member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic. Once leader of the liberal Democratic Union, he joined the SPD in 19
Breitscheid (right) with Otto Braun (left) in April 1932.
Memorial plaque to Breitscheid in Berlin stating that he died in an air raid on Buchenwald.
Rudolf Hilferding
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Rudolf Hilferding was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, socialist theorist, politician and the chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic, being almost
Rudolf Breitscheid
…popular front with the KPD alienated him from fellow SPD comrades. During the invasion of France in May 1940, Breitscheid fled to Marseille with Tony and Rudolf Hilferding where, despite efforts by Varian Fry, they were unsuccessful in seeking visas to enter the United States. They were arrested by French police in September…
Hilferding in 1931
Finanzkapital, 1923