Out of the NightStory of a German who worked as an agent for the Communists against the Nazis. |
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Strike is training for civil war ; so every strike , no matter how it ends , is a political triumph for the Party . Even before our wild June action in the harbor of Hamburg had been brought to its conclusion , I was summoned to a ...
Strike is training for civil war ; so every strike , no matter how it ends , is a political triumph for the Party . Even before our wild June action in the harbor of Hamburg had been brought to its conclusion , I was summoned to a ...
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The wave of strikes which we had engineered in the early months of 1931 was water on the Nazi mill . ... We endeavored frantically to turn this strike into a major political battle by leading the masses into conflicts with the police .
The wave of strikes which we had engineered in the early months of 1931 was water on the Nazi mill . ... We endeavored frantically to turn this strike into a major political battle by leading the masses into conflicts with the police .
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It was a standing order of the Comintern to organize strikes whenever and wherever possible , to disorganize production and ... Papen's measures to fight unemployment provided an excellent soil for the growth of a wild strike wave .
It was a standing order of the Comintern to organize strikes whenever and wherever possible , to disorganize production and ... Papen's measures to fight unemployment provided an excellent soil for the growth of a wild strike wave .
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