Antifaschistische Aktion (German: [ˌantifaˈʃɪstɪʃə ʔakˈtsi̯oːn]) was a militant anti-fascist organisation in the Weimar Republic started by members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). It was described by the KPD as a "red united front under the leadership of the only anti-fascist party, the KPD." [1]

The Communist Party of Germany (German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, pronounced [kɔmuˈnɪstɪʃə paʁˈtaɪ ˈdɔʏtʃlants] ⓘ; KPD [ˌkaːpeːˈdeː] ⓘ) was a major far-left political party in the Weimar Republic during the interwar period, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West Germany during the postwar period u...

2015年5月22日 · The German Communist Party (KPD – Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) was seen as a major rival by the Nazi Party during the years of Weimar Germany in terms of who might acquire national power. The German Communist Party grew out of the Spartacist Movement led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknicht.

At the time, the KPD in the Western Zone was focusing on the "unity of the working class" and demanding the creation of a unified party combining the KPD and the SPD along the lines of the SED. At the SPD campaign rally pictured here, SPD party chairman Kurt Schumacher once again rejected any and all KPD unification proposals.

At the time, the KPD in the Western Zone was focusing on the "unity of the working class" and demanding the creation of a unified party combining the KPD and the SPD along the lines of the SED. At the SPD campaign rally pictured here, SPD party chairman Kurt Schumacher once again rejected any and all KPD unification proposals.

2017年5月8日 · The KPD, for its part, initially took on waves of new members, as its prestige rose in light of the Soviet victory over Hitler and broad anticapitalist sentiment. The party soon rebuilt its industrial bases, and by 1946 controlled just as many shop floor committees in the heavily industrialized Ruhr Region as the SPD.

KPD officers arriving for an expected white supremacist rally and counter-protest in Ft. Sanders Saturday

Altona Bloody Sunday (German: Altonaer Blutsonntag) is the name given to the events of 17 July 1932 when a recruitment march by the Nazi SA led to violent clashes between the police, the SA and supporters of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Altona, which at the time belonged to the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein but is now part ...

Ernst Thälmann (16 April 1886 18 August 1944) was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944.

At least one case has been reported of an Obmann forcing the inhabitants of a particular house in American sector to attend a KPD rally at which anti-American sentiments were expressed. 56