The German Communist Resistance 1933-1945 T. Derbent Foreign Languages Press FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS Collection “New Roads” #10 A collection directed by Christophe Kistler Contact – fl
[email protected] https://foreignlanguages.press Paris, 2021 First Edition ISBN: 978-2-491182-51-9 Translated from La Résistance communiste allemande 1933-1945, Éditions ADEN, Bruxelles, 2008. Th is book is under license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ To my mother, an antifascist To my father, an antifascist Each in their own way T. D. CONTENTS Preface From German Communist Antifascism 1 to a Contemporary United Front Devin Zane Shaw Introduction A Resistance that Cannot be Found 18 Chapter 1 The KPD in the Face of the Rise of 24 Hitlerism Chapter 2 In Exile, in Spain 36 Chapter 3 KPD Clandestine Organizations in Germany 48 Chapter 4 KPD in Occupied Countries 62 Chapter 5 The Special Networks, Espionage and 72 Sabotage Chapter 6 The National Committee for a Free 78 Germany Chapter 7 Up to the Camps 86 Chapter 8 Lessons of Resistance, Reasons for Denial 94 East German Bibliography 102 Appendix 1 Conversation between M. Abramowicz 104 and T. Derbent on The German Communist Resistance Appendix 2 Interview between J. Kmieciak and T. 110 Derbent on The German Communist Resistance Preface Preface From German Communist Antifascism to a Contemporary United Front Devin Zane Shaw Reconstructing a Communist Antifascist History T. Derbent is a communist theorist of military strategy, whose research and writing focus on the influence of Clausewitz’s theories on revolutionary thought.