European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

The party, my parents were functionaries in,

was called the ‘German Social Democratic Labour Party in Czechoslovakia’.

But the name was a diversion, it was a socialistic, an Austro-Marxian party.

Our party did not belong to the ‘1st Internationale’ but to the ‘2.5th Internationale’,

the ‘Vienna Internationale’, with the slogan:

No social democratic opportunism and no Bolshevistic dogmatism.

We worked according to this guideline,

but of course even in this party and in the youth association, which was a part of the party,

there were different positions.

That showed especially in 1936, when the popular front became relevant,

but the politics of the popular front demanded

for working closely together with the communists.

The ideological discrepancies were known.

They were out of question.