Hitler's Rival: Ernst Thälmann in Myth and Memory

by Russel Lemmons

Throughout the 1920s, German politician and activist Ernst Th?lmann (1886-1944) was the leader of the largest Communist Party organization outside the Soviet Union. Th?lmann was the most prominent left-wing politician in the country's 1932 election and ran third in the presidential race after Hitler and von Hindenberg. After the Nazi Party's victory in that contest, he was imprisoned and held in solitary confinement for eleven years before being executed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813140900
• ISBN13: 9780813140902
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary