European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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After my youth consecration, when I left school, I took part in my first Marxist seminar.
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There, young people who were interested,
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learned all the basics if they wanted to become a functionary of the labour movement.
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So they were not only practical experiences that were being reflected,
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but we also had seminars learning to deal with the political opponent.
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For example, it was obligatory for a functionary of the socialist youth
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to have read Hitler’s book ‚Mein Kampf’.
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We could tell the Nazi officials, who didn’t know as well as we did, what the real aims were.
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They did not believe that Hitler wanted war.
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We kept hearing again and again: „They will not be so stupid to go against the whole world on their own.”
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But we were able to quote from ‚Mein Kampf’ that the annexation of new living space in the east
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was one main issue of the Nazis’ fight.
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If we were able to bring the better arguments into discussions with the Nazis,
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in the companies, in the schools or wherever, it would have an effect on the undecided.
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But still the Nazis became stronger and stronger;
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for one, because of the social problems and for two,
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because the imperial German broadcasting service had an immense influence.
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Many Germans did not speak Czech,
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but you could hear the broadcast stations Königs Wusterhausen and Seesen, the two Nazi stations, well.
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This influence, in which social problems were misleadingly passed off as national problems, were surely effective.
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