Hitler's Rival : Ernst Thälmann in Myth and Memory /

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Throughout the 1920s, German politician and activist Ernst Th?lmann (1886--1944) was the leader of the largest Communist Party organization outside the Soviet Union. Th?lmann was the most prominent left-wing politician in the country's 1932 election and ran third in the presidential race after...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lemmons, Russel, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Thälmann, Ernst, > 1886-1944.
Socialism.
Propaganda, Communist.
Politics and government
National socialism.
Communists.
Communism.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism & Socialism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
National Socialism.
Nazisme.
Propagande communiste > Allemagne (Est)
Propaganda, Communist > Germany (East)
Socialism > Germany > 20th century.
Communism > Germany > History > 20th century.
Communists > Germany > Biography.
Germany (East)
Germany.
Allemagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1918-1933.
Germany > Politics and government > 1918-1933.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Throughout the 1920s, German politician and activist Ernst Th?lmann (1886--1944) was the leader of the largest Communist Party organization outside the Soviet Union. Th?lmann was the most prominent left-wing politician in the country's 1932 election and ran third in the presidential race after Hitler and von Hindenberg. After the Nazi Party's victory in that contest, he was imprisoned and held in solitary confinement for eleven years before being executed at Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 under the F?hrer's direct orders. Hitler's Rival examines how the Communist Party graduall.
Physical Description:1 online resource (438 pages).
ISBN:9780813140926

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