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...Gerhart followed. She became a leader of the German Communist Party, and a member of the Reichstag. But Gerhart took a different ideological tack, began to covet power for himself. He applauded when Ruth was banished from the party by the Stalinist clique. Then he tried to undermine Ernst Thaelmann, Stalin's favorite in Germany. He failed, was summoned to Moscow. He escaped liquidation by denouncing friends who were out of favor...
...brace, is called "official singer" for the U.S. survivors of the International Brigades of the Loyalists. Singer van der Schelling is backed by an "Exiles Chorus" directed by Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans). Some of the songs-the Spanish Joven Guardia, the Italian Guardia Rossa, the German Thaelmann-Bataillon, the French Au Devant de la Vie (music by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich)-were composed during the Spanish War. Most of them are in rough, plodding march time. The one which gives the album its name was composed by a German, Eberhard Schmitt, in the camp at Gurs. Its chorus, translated...
...allowed to rest for long, shifted from one busy front to another, the Internationals' casualties have been staggeringly high. They filled up bad gaps of a slowly forming Leftist Army in the early days of the war. The French volunteers led in numbers, followed by Poles, German exiles (Thaelmann Battalion), Italian exiles (Garibaldi Battalion), English, the U. S. volunteers (Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, later simply Lincoln-Washington Battalion), Canadians (Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion), many Central Europeans...
...that the Barcelona Government has dismissed its two remaining international divisional commanders, has given orders that all international brigade commanders are also to be relieved of command. The divisional commanders to be dismissed: 1) a German Communist who fought as Lieut.-Colonel "Hans." first commander of the German-Slav Thaelmann Battalion, later promoted to command the 45th Division; 2) a Polish Communist, General Walter, who commanded the 35th Division, which includes Americans...
...Communist Party, which won 4,590,000 votes in 1930 and was expected to make large gains last week, fooled everyone, made virtually no gain. Only 4,900,000 Germans voted for Comrade Ernst Thaelmann, "The Red Napoleon." In Hamburg, his native city, Comrade Thaelmann trailed both Hitler and Hindenburg; but in Berlin the big, blond, leather-lunged Red ran ahead of Hitler though behind Hindenburg...