Erich Mühsam, murdered by Nazis on this day in 1934, was a Jewish anarchist author who openly condemned Nazism and satirized Hitler before being arrested by the Nazi regime in 1933.

In 1911, Mühsam founded the newspaper, "Kain" as a forum for anarcho-communist politics, stating that it would "be a personal organ for whatever the editor, as a poet, as a citizen of the world, and as a fellow man had on his mind." The paper opposed capital punishment and government censorship of theater.

After World War I, Mühsam was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for playing a leading role in the Bavarian Revolution. He was freed as part of the same general amnesty for political prisoners under the Weimar Republic that released Adolf Hitler.

As a cabaret performer and writer during this time, he achieved international prominence, promoting works which condemned Nazism and personally satirized Adolf Hitler.

In 1933, Mühsam was arrested, with propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels labeling him as one of "those Jewish subversives."

While imprisoned, he was brutally tortured, however his spirit remained unbroken. When his captors tried to force him to sing the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" (the Nazi's anthem), Mühsam sung The Internationale, instead.

According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Mühsam was murdered in the Oranienburg concentration camp on July 11th, 1934.

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    Progress update on my weaving. Stuff is moving along well, I cant work to long on it since its the workweek now but I got a few hours in(none yesterday I passed out after work lol). It'll probably take all week to finish at this rate. I get a lot more done when I can spend many hours working on it during the weekend.

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    Here you can see the back of the threads has moved up quite a bit since I started and Ive moved the chairs together as well. Im probably over halfway through the length but its hard to tell. Of course this wont translate into an equal length of finished work but its pretty long so far.

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    Heres the full belt so far. I cant actually measure the length, since its in tension and attached to the loom, but each block of the pattern is about 10-9 inches long and I have 4 blocks done, so its roughly 40 inches long (~1 meter). I was shooting for about 2 meters so Ill probably be a bit short but we'll see. Its hard to measure the length right now.

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    Heres what the back looks like. The pattern is reversed but the way tablet weaving works with 4 threads being spun in specific directions the backside doesnt look like the front but flipped. Some patterns can visually reverse but most dont.

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