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therefore that was obviously a heavy setback.

The German labour movement was the strongest and ideologically most consolidated one in the ‘1st Internationale’,

and you could say the same about the Austrian labour movement.

We learned not only of the dirty fortunes of antifascists through the immigrants,

but also experienced the international effects of what happened to the setback of civilization in 1933.

Up to this time in Czechoslovakia the focus of the German, as well as the Czechoslovakian labour parties,

was on the class struggle, which meant the fight for better material and cultural living conditions.

In 1933 this obviously didn’t stop, but the more the Nazis,

the Hitler supporters in the German areas of Czechoslovakia developed,

the more it amounted to a new political front status.

On one side, supporters of Hitler in the German areas of Czechoslovakia, who increasingly became more aggressive

and on the other side the German and Czech antifascists.

So it was not really the way it is now being claimed quite often,

A nationalistic perspective is a belated attempt to distract from the real problems we had at that time.

Post-war times, memorial policies, “traitors”

The main Nazis, they hid away.

Back then, when the partisans were there.

Some of them came back out of their holes the end of May

and for a while they were like the Stasi (secret police of East Germany).