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EARLY ANTI-FASCISM: Red Front Fighters' League (RFB) lead by communist Ernst Thalmann (left) and Willy Leow (right) in Berlin, June 1927. Thalmann was executed on Hitler's orders in Buchenwald on August 18 1944, while Leow was shot on October 3 1937 during the Stalinist purges
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Spanish Sky Spreads Its Stars: The Story of the Thalmann Battalion and the First Germans in Armed Struggle Against Fascism
Ewald P Schulz, International Brigade Commemoration Committee, £6
MORE than 4,000 Germans fought in the International Brigades or in the anti-fascist militias and other Spanish military units during the Spanish civil war. Over 1,000 of them gave their lives.
Their story is recounted in this booklet by Ewald P Schulz, a Berlin-based lawyer and journalist who is active in the KFSR, the International Brigade Memorial Trust’s (IBMT) sister organisation in Germany.
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