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Please note:
This exhibition tells the story of the political and trade union
organisations of the workers movement in the first half of the twentieth
century and attempts to give visitors an insight into the causes and
background of German fascism and the Second World War.
What can
be seen in the Ernst Thälmann Memorial Museum?
Over 500 exhibits can
be seen in 32 display cases and on 34 display boards. Written and
pictorial material, newspaper of the time, magazines, posters etc.
documents shows the rise from the Hamburg transport worker Ernst Thälmann
to a young social democrat and trade union functionary and to a chairman
of the KPD (Communist Party of Germany) and representative df the
Communist International (Comintern), through to his representative roles
in both local and national parliaments, as initiator of antifascist
campaigns and his struggle as Hitler's prisoner up to his murder in the
Buchenwald concentration camp.
The section about resistance and
persecution in Hamburg shows visitors documents about the fates of women,
men and teenagers, those who risked their lives in the struggle against
Hitler and war. We show things connected with their activity, such as a
printing press, pamphlets, illegal newspaper and secret material hidden
inside other publications together with Gestapo protective custody
orders, death sentences issued by the Nazi judiciary documents ańd the
last letters, written by inmates from Neuengamme and other concentration
camps.
Ernst Thälmann was a committed campaigner for world peace,
because he had experiences of the horrors of war himself. From January
1915 to the end of the war in 1918, he shared the fate of millions of
soldiers at the front, whose lives were put at risk for the interests of
the international finance capital and militarism.
Ernst Thälmann
stood for the struggle against Nazis.
Erom the beginning, Ernst
Thälmann was among those who warned peoples for the dangers of fascism in
Germany. In 1932 he denounced fascism with his short and direct “Hitler
means war!"
One of Thälmann's initiative, the Communist Party of
Germany (KPD) called a widespread antifascist campaign in Germany!" in
order to remove the barrier between social democratic and communist
workers. In many places were formed and functionaries united front
committees and members of both parties - KPD and SPD (Social Democratic
Party of Germany) discussed together, how could be fought against
fascism.
The leadership of the SPD and the ADGB (All-German Trade
Union League) rejected a united struggle. The leadership of the trade
unions declined to call a general strike and agreed to allow members to
demonstrate under Nazi banners on the 1" May. This enabled the Nazis to
arrest a lot of trade union leaders. The strength of the communists and
those social democratics and non-aligned antifascists, who were prepared
fight against Hitler, fascism and war, was not enough to prevent the rise of
a fascist dictatorship.
"Ernst Thälmann and comrades: A Hamburg
exhibition in pictures and words" published by the curators of the Ernst
Thälmann Memorial Museum Hamburg 2009.
Similar to an exhibition
catalogue, this publication documents the exhibits in Hamburg's Ernst
Thälmann Memorial Museum, which was set up over four decades ago. This
memorial museum is housed in the house at the corner of Tarpenbekstrasse
66 in Hamburg's Eppendorf district. In the same building where the
Thälmann family had rented an apartment from the end of the 1920s.
We
look forward to your visit and to providing you with further information
about future events. Further informations is available from:
The
curators of the “Ernst Thälmann Memorial Museum e.V.", located at
Ernst-Thälmann-Platz in the Eppendorf district of Hamburg.Address:
Tarpenbekstrasse 66, 20251 Hamburg,Tel. +49 40 474184,E-mail:
kuratorium@thaelmann-gedenkstaette.de, Internet:
www.thaelmann-gedenkstaette.de
Opening times: Wed 2pm to 5 pm, Thu
10am to 1pm, Fri 2pm to 5pm and by arrangement via email
Bank
details: Postbank Hamburg IBAN: DE98 2001 0020 0133 7372 04, BIC: PBNKDEFF
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