communist OPPRESSION IN RUSSIAN ZONE OF GERMANY
communist OPPRESSION IN RUSSIAN ZONE OF GERMANY On March 16 the German Branch of the New York Social Democratic Federation adopted a resolution against the violent and coercive methods uaed by the...
...by strangers and their inmates simply disappear...
...On the following day the Commu-niat Fuehrer, Wilhelm Pieck, aaid that under' tho circumstances the Communists would be forced to set up a unified pSrty "by revolutionary means...
...Otto Grotewohl, Chairman of the Berlin Social Democrats, waa in tho chair and the motion had been introduced in hia name...
...Every day Socialist officials who have opposed the single-party plan are arrested and carried off...
...It is up to friends of a free labor movement everywhere to support and defend them...
...Basing their viewa on letters received from Germany, this committee reports aa follows upon recent eventa in the Rusaian Zone: "On March 1 the delegates of the Social Democratic Party in Berlin rejected by a large majority a resolution in favor of amalgamation with the Communists...
...This reaolution ia aigned by Rudolf Kats, Arnold Schroeder, Rose Wirt)., Karl KeJnath and Kurt Schu-man...
...They have already done mors than the world had a right to expect of them...
...Even in the British and American sections of Berlin the homes of Social Democrats are invaded at night...
...The notorious concentration camps at Oranienburg, Buchenwald and Sachsenhauaen are once more crowded with democratic Socialiats and liberals...
...In place of the SA and SS we now have the NKVD...
...In answer to questions from delegates, he subsequently confessed that he had given hia name to it "under pressure...
...This wave of violence is not limited to the Russian zone...
...All that haa been changed ia the uniform of the keepers...
...They are opposed by ruthless power...
...The workers in the zone occupied by tha Russiana cannot defend themselves...
...From that moment there has been a reign of terror throughout the Rusaian zone...
...communist OPPRESSION IN RUSSIAN ZONE OF GERMANY On March 16 the German Branch of the New York Social Democratic Federation adopted a resolution against the violent and coercive methods uaed by the Russian authorities and the German Communists against the Social Democrats and the German labor movement in the eastern tone of Germany...
...Other well-known Socialists save themselves by flight to the British zone to the west...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 13
