European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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and you could say the same about the Austrian labour movement.
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We learned not only of the dirty fortunes of antifascists through the immigrants,
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but also experienced the international effects of what happened to the setback of civilization in 1933.
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Up to this time in Czechoslovakia the focus of the German, as well as the Czechoslovakian labour parties,
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was on the class struggle, which meant the fight for better material and cultural living conditions.
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In 1933 this obviously didn’t stop, but the more the Nazis,
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the Hitler supporters in the German areas of Czechoslovakia developed,
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the more it amounted to a new political front status.
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On one side, supporters of Hitler in the German areas of Czechoslovakia, who increasingly became more aggressive
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and on the other side the German and Czech antifascists.
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So it was not really the way it is now being claimed quite often,
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