Hitler’s Rival: Ernst Thälmann in Myth and Memory

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419 Page numbers that appear in italics refer to illustrations. Academy of Sciences, 179, 295, 298 Ackermann, Anton, 113 Active Museum of Fascism and Resistance, 359, 363, 368–371 Adenauer, Konrad, 139, 143, 168, 204, 209, 216, 248 American Relief Administration, 78–79 Amnesty Campaign, 83 Anschluss, 8 Antifascist Action (organization), 52–53 Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) [newspaper], 54–56, 84, 96–99, 103, 266 Arnold, Walter, 210, 213 Association for the Victims of Nazi Persecution (VVN), 197–198 Axen, Hermann, 163 Barbusse, Henri, 80–81 Bartel, Kurt, 244 Bartel, Walter, 133–134, 198–199, 226, 231–232 Basic Treaty, 312 Baumert, Walter, 336–337, 340–341 Bautzen prison, 64, 66, 71, 111, 134, 152, 246, 268–269, 309 Bebel, August, 127, 130, 286 Becher, Johannes, 4, 85, 113, 238; and Buchenwald, 198; and films about Thälmann, 172; and poems about Thälmann, 100–101, 220, 222–223 Beimler, Hans, 105 Berlin Transport Workers, 58, 60, 161. See also ZentralVerband der HandelsTransport -Vekehrsarbeiter und Arbeiterinnen Deutschlands Berlin Wall, 154, 311, 358 Bertz, Paul, 64 Birkenhauer, Erich, 72, 81 Board of Trustees for the Construction of National Memorials, 206–207, 210 Bolshevik/Bolshevism, 2–3, 8, 34, 43, 61, 76, 95, 133, 136, 138, 142, 157–158, 167, 373; historiography, 288–289; as model for German Communists, 30–31, 37, 42, 44, 56, 67, 100, 121–122, 124, 259, 281, 283–284, 301; as primary target of Nazis, 174; of SED, 132 Bonhoff, Ursula, 343–344 bourgeois/bourgeoisie, 3, 18–19, 37, 56, 78, 84, 93, 119, 128, 146, 16–17, 232, 255, 288–289, 307, 309, 332, 337, 345; as dominant capitalist class, 18, 36, 58, 145, 148, 202, 302; historiography, 277, 294; in Weimar Republic, 31, 40–42, 44–45, 49–52, 60, 132, 135–136, 289 Brandler, Karl, 34 Brandt, Willy, 312 Index 420 Index Braun, Otto, 38, 41–42 Bräutigam, Alois, 213–214 Bredel, Willi, 130–132, 137, 245; biography of Thälmann, 4, 14, 129, 131–132, 153, 159, 261, 267, 273, 278–293, 296, 303, 305–307, 310; and films about Thälmann, 159–165, 171–172, 180, 182–183; and Thälmann Battalion, 106 Breitscheid, Rudolf, 81, 112, 116, 141, 219, 229–230, 238, 367 Brown Shirts, 76, 118. See also Sturmabteilungen Brüning, Heinrich, 52, 53–54 Buchenwald Committee, 198–199, 212 Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 134, 141, 180, 187–188, 192, 204–205, 238, 239, 248, 249, 322, 324, 326, 327, 329; antifascist opposition in, 189–191, 193, 208, 211–212, 223, 224; dedication of National Monument, 214–219; documentary film (1984), 232– 233; and murder of Thälmann, 88, 111, 113, 115, 116, 122, 155, 195, 264, 274–275, 291, 309, 322, 328, 330, 333; Museum of the Resistance Movement in, 200; myth of self-liberation, 192–194, 198–199; stelae in, 220–233; and Thälmann commemoration, 117, 122, 129, 136, 146, 149, 185, 194–297, 199–200, 203, 205–233, 241, 243, 319, 336, 346, 347–348. See also Otto, Wolfgang Buchenwald National Monument, 204; dedication of, 214–219. See also Buchenwald Committee, Buchenwald Concentration Camp Buchenwald Oath, 218, 233 Bukharin, Nikolai, 43, 46, 308 Bundestag, 322 Butzmann, Manfred, 360, 369 Catholic Center Party (Zentrum), 38 Central Association of Transportation Workers of Germany, 22 Central Committee: CPSU, 88; CPUSA, 83; KPD, 31, 34, 35, 38, 42, 44–48, 59, 70, 95, 105, 144, 145, 148, 174, 225, 283, 344; SED, 153, 199, 200, 209–210, 211, 213, 218, 243, 280, 298, 348, 351 Central Institute for History, 277–278 Central Office for the Treatment of National Socialist Mass Crimes in Concentration Camps for the State of Nordrhein-Westphalia, 322–323 Chernenko, Konstantin, 316 Children’s Association of the FDJ, 237 Christian Democratic Union (CDU), 363, 365, 367, 371 Club for Filmmakers, 178–179, 182 cold war, 6, 119, 136, 201, 217, 238, 279, 358, 375; and Thälmann myth, 13, 135, 142, 144, 146, 168, 216–218 Commando 99, 326, 330. See also Otto, Wolfgang Commission for the Fate of the Political Monuments of the GDR in the Former East Berlin, 364–368 Committee for the Liberation of Thälmann and Imprisoned German Antifascists, 80–81 Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters, 214, 347 Communist International (Comintern), 7, 12, 25, 26, 29, Index 421 31, 34–37, 39, 42–47, 52, 63, 65, 66, 131, 235, 300, 373; fifth congress of, 43–44; and “Free Thälmann...