That's How It Was…

Factual Report of a Worker from Solingen, 1926 to 1948

Willi Dickhut

• Verlag: Verlag Neuer Weg
• Jahr: 2022
• eBook-ISBN:
  9783880216075
• Thema: Histoire
• Thema: Histoire du monde

The 1920s and early 1930s were a very turbulent time in the working-class movement. As the ruling class no longer could maintain its power by means of bourgeois democracy, it took recourse to fascist dictatorship. The working-class movement was smashed – by the most brutal terror ever experienced by humanity. The revolutionaries were forced deeply underground.The fascist dictatorship was destroyed by military means. But under the cloak of "education for democracy" the Western occupying powers exercised a veiled dictatorship for the purpose of unimpeded preparation of the Cold War. The German reactionaries were involved in this plan. The spearhead was directed at the Soviet Union.Against this historical backdrop the author also describes his personal experiences and struggles as a functionary of the working-class movement: The past comes alive.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Contents
• Preface
• Foreword to the first foreign-language edition
• I - The Weimar Republic an the Struggle of the KPD
• The Factory, a Battlefield of Class Struggle
• As a Specialist in the Soviet Union
• The Decision Nears
• II - Illegal Resistance during the Fascist Dictatorship
• As a Peat Bog Soldier against Fascist Terror
• Reconstruction of the Illegal KPD
• World War II until Its Turning Point
• The Smashing of the Fascist Dictatorship
• III - Under the Pressure of the Western Occupying Powers
• The “Democracy” of the American Military Government
• The Hypocrisy of the British Military Government
• The Legalization of Trade Unions and Parties, Freedom of the Press, and the Bloc of Democratic Parties
• Municipal Politics in Fetters
• The Municipal Election in 1946 – A Hard Fight
• From Occupying Power to Adenauer Era
• Appendix