Ernst Thalmann
Ernst Thalmann
Ernst Thälmannwas the leader of the Communist Party of Germanyduring much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 April 1886
CountryGermany
across chest held hit keeping longer replied shut whip
Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.
political cost confession
Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.