Ernst Thalmann Memorial stamp, 1954 -- Stamps of the GDR #34
Stamp in memory of the tenth anniversary of the murder of the great leader of the KPD from 1925 to 1933. In 1933 he was arrested by the Nazis and spent much of the next 11 years in solitary confinement in prison before being killed in August, 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp on the direct orders of Hitler.