European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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born in 1921 and grown up in Eger, now Cheb, in the German populated areas of Czechoslovakia.
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I am a trained typesetter and typographer.
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After 1945 I was active in the socialistic youth as a state and federation secretary.
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For 25 years I was the head of the German Union of Peace
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and then federation spokesman for the Association of the victims of persecution by the Nazi regime.
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If you grew up in a family of a labour union official, in the German populated areas of Czechoslovakia
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during the twenties and thirties, of the last century,
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you encountered the political problems and the political fights from early childhood.
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In Eger my father was the most popular strike-leader before the First World War
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and afterwards he was, although not fit for work,
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still speaker at demonstrations and meetings of the union.
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As his son, I obviously experienced this first hand, because my parents often took me with them to political activities;
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especially on the 1st May or on other red-letter days of the labour movement.
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The moulding and forming impressions were: 1. the year 1933,
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when the German corpus and the German General staff shifted the power towards the Nazi leading clique
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and: 2. the year 1934, in Austria,
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when the latter gave power to the cleric-fascists who broke up the labour movement.
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According to our understanding the development of mankind goes from lower forms to increasing forms of living together,
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therefore that was obviously a heavy setback.
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The German labour movement was the strongest and ideologically most consolidated one in the ‘1st Internationale’,
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