SPANISH CIVIL WAR BUTTON HONORING GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER ARRESTED BY GESTAPO IN 1933.
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Starting Bid:
$118.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, November 13, 2018 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
7/8". Depicting leader of Germany's Communist Party beginning in 1925. He twice ran for president of Germany. In 1933 he was arrested by the Gestapo. In 1936, the Thaelmann Battalion of the International Brigades, during the Spanish Civil War, was named in his honor. That is when this button dates from and it reads "Fight Fascism/Red Front/Ernst Thaelman" (spelling on button is missing an "n" from his last name). After spending 11 years in solitary confinement, he was executed at the Buchenwald death camp in 1944 on Hitler's orders. Only the fourth example we have encountered. Light surface wear in reflected light. Exc. displaying Mint.
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