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Why was the West German Communist Party banned in 1956, only 11 years after it had emerged from Nazi persecution? Although politically weak, the post-war party was in fact larger than its Weimar predecessor and initially dominated works councils at the Ruhr pits and Hamburg docks, as well as the steel giant, Krupp. Under the control of East Berlin, however, the KPD was sent off on a series of overambitious and flawed campaigns to promote national unification and prevent West German rearmament. At th ... More
Keywords: West German Communist Party, German Democratic Republic, West Germany, Krupp, Cold War, national unification, rearmament, works councils
Print publication date: 1998 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198206934 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206934.001.0001 |
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