Hitler's Rival: Ernst Thälmann in Myth and Memory

Throughout the 1920s, German politician and activist Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944) was the leader of the largest Communist Party organization outside the Soviet Union. Thälmann 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 at Buchenwald concentration camp in 194

Author: Russel Lemmons
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 03/01/2013
Pages: 438
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780813140902

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2013

About the Author

Russel Lemmons, professor of history at Jacksonville State University, is the author of Goebbels and Der Angriff.

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