Sophie Scholl, the best-known German resistance fighter against the Nazis, would have turned 100 today. The state-sponsored commemorations of her cover up a simple fact: most resistance fighters against the Nazis were socialists and communists.
  • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    The article gets ahistorical with it's distate for Stalin towards the end, pretending that the communists weren't cooperating with the Social Democrats just over ideological grounds; but over all brings attention to a notable issue with the failure of German denazification.