Waiting for Stunde Null Exiled Leaders and Resistance Cadres
Waiting for Stunde Null Exiled Leaders and Resistance Cadres
This chapter examines the prehistory of the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) in West Germany before 1945. The Republic's final years had conditioned the political behaviour of the post-war KPD. In 1932, the KPD made a quantitative success in terms of vote and membership. However, most of the votes were protest votes and the vast majority of a fluctuating mass membership were unemployed and difficult to integrate into a stable Communist milieu. After the war, the KPD returned to a significantly different social condition, and its readjustment process lasted well into the 1950s. The Nazi persecution also kept the Communist resistance cadres in a form of suspended animation, unable to return to leadership.
Keywords: social condition, membership, Communist resistance, politcal behaviour, Nazi persecution
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