Images of Gedenkstätte Ernst Thälmann
Gedenkstätte Ernst Thälmann and its collection
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Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944) was chairman of the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) in Hamburg and a member of the Hamburg Parliament. He then became a member of the German Reichstag and chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1929 until his arrest on 3 March 1933 he lived with his family in the Tarpenbekstraße 66 in Hamburg. The exhibition shows documents on the history of the labor movement and workers' resistance, including his work as chairman of the KPD, his detention centers in Hanover and Bautzen and his death in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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