Original Stiff Wrappers. 8vo. 184, [16] pages. 21 cm. First edition. In German. Title translates as: Resistance in the Rhine and Ruhr, 1933-1945. Published by the Association of Victims of the Nazi regime of North Rhine-Westphalia, a post war association of German anti-fascist resistance members and concentration camp survivors, founded as a means of support for 250, 000 formerly persecuted political prisoners. The author, Karl Schabrod (1900-1981) was a pre-war radical woodworkers and journalist for a communist paper, he was arrested in 1934 for anti-fascist leaflets in Dusseldorf and imprisoned in the Börgermoor concentration camp. He was released, and arrested again for anti-fascist activities, and was sentenced to life imprisonment; he was liberated by Americans in 1945. He resumed his activities, helping rebuild the short lived activity of the post war German Communist Party in the Federal Republic, and was actively involved in the support network of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime. He was blacklisted by the Federal Republic in 1950, and worked as a carpenter, and remained politically active for the remainder of his life, spending another stint of nine months in jail in 1958 for being a communist actively seeking to become elected in the local parliament of North Rhine-Wesphalia. Schabrod wrote at least five volumes dealing with the resistance struggles and political prisoners in the anti-nazi struggle. In this volume, a general survey of the resistance in the Rhine and Ruhr region, encompasses not only the radical miners and proletarians who maintained literary and active struggle against the nazis throughout these years, but also details the open resistance in the region at the closing of the war, wherein many anti-nazi fighters waged open battle as the Ruhr pocket was being closed; many of these fighters being liquidated by the SS. Includes dozens of hand-drawn illustrations of underground newspapers and leaflets, assuredly lost and redrawn from memory by the author. Includes a large register of anti-nazi comrades killed in the struggle. Subjects: Anti-Nazi movement - Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia. Nationalsozialismus. Widerstand. Geschichte 1933-1945. North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) - History. Rheinprovinz. Ruhrgebiet. Light wear to covers, fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-100-29)
