From: L.Candreva-AT-agora.stm.it
Subject: How Stalinism destroyed
Date: Wed,  14 Feb 96 10:45:11 GMT


the communist mouvement
some details
(was M. Buber Neumann)

Some days ago I posted a msg.o n M. Buber Neumann. Nobody found
it useful, also because, I guess, it was a little bit cryptic.
In fact the thread is intended to expose some of the less
known crimes of Stalinism, to render honour to some of the
"less" important victims, that are not mentioned in the
ordinary History book, and, in a certain extent, unknown
outside Europe and, in most cases, outside Germany and Italy.
This is a challenge to people who still believe that Stalinsim
was "revolutionnary". I'm doing that in an historical plane
because, as Marx stated, "Those who don't learn from history
are doomed to repeat it". This applies to "senderistas" as
well to comrades that close(d) their eyes on the crimes of
Stalin, selling the historical justificationism for historical
materialism.

     I already posted on Margarete Buber-Neumann, wife of the
German communist Heinz Neummann. While H. Neummann died in
Ussr (probably in a concentration camp), his wife has been
relased to nazis in 1940, during the infamous Hitler-Stalin
Pact, and she survived to print her memories.
     Now I'll post about some other comrades murdered in the
Stalinist concentration camps, or delivered to the nazis.

     Heinrich Kurella, brother of Alfred Kurella, former Sed
minister of culture in the former DDR. H. Kurella worked for
the Comintern till 1936. He admitted that was friend of Heinz
Neumann. This declaration has been enough to led him in
prison and in a concentratin camp.

     Kathe Schultz (Schmidt). She joined the communist party
of Germany when she was 17 years old. In 1931 she has been on
trial, charged of the murder of Wessel, because she was part
of the communist cell of Ali Hohler, the murder of Wessel. In
the trial she was discharged, but in 1933 the Nazis in power
reopened the trial and K. Schultz escaped to Soviet Union. In
1937 she has been arrested on a fake accusation, deported in
Siberia, when she has been condemned to 10 years of hard
labours.

     Erich Schmidt was a devoted communist. In 1933 he left
Germany for the Soviet Union. Here he has been arrested for
"counterrevolutionary cospiration" in 1936. In prison he
became mad: he explained his arrest by the fact that at the
head of the NKVD [the Soviet secret police] was sitting a
Trotskyite. In 1940 he was released to the Nazi Germany.

     Between 1936 and 1937 hundreds (could be thousands) of
German skilled workers, most of them communists escaping the Nazi terror,
were delivered to the Nazi Germany by the Stalin's bureaucracy.

     I'm shure I'll be never able to give a line to a lot of
people, devoted communists and antifascists, murdered,
imprisoned, or delivered to their Nazi butcher by the
Stalinism. But I'll do what I can.

...to be continued

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