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A Communist Teacher Rescued 159 Jewish Children in Buchenwald
Wilhelm Hammann -- image via Wikimedia Commons Junge Welt, May 27, 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Fabian Lehmann interviews Bernd Heyl, author of a forthcoming biography of Wilhelm Hammann: Why is the life of Wilhelm Hammann (1897-1955), a teacher, antifascist and Communist Party (KPD) member of the Hessian state parliament, worth sharing with a broader readership today? Antifascism is more urgent today than in recent years. It is therefore important to remember peo

The Left Chapter
May 273 min read


“We honour the memory of these heroes from the ranks of the Austrian working class and the Austrian people”
Speech by Lukas Haslwanter, Deputy Chair of the Party of Labour of Austria (PdA), at the liberation celebration at the former Mauthausen concentration camp, 10 May 2026 Speech by Lukas Haslwanter, Deputy Chair of the Party of Labour of Austria (PdA), at the liberation celebration at the former Mauthausen concentration camp, 10 May 2026 Dear comrades, Today, one day after 9 May – the day of the great anti-fascist victory of the peoples over fascism – we stand here in Mauthause

The Left Chapter
May 153 min read


Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust - NCPY
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20252 min read


Salaspils and the "Ost" plan
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
Aug 31, 20242 min read
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