Komitee Ehemaliger Politischer Gefangener: Reports and statistics about concentration camps and other papers

Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital content <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to book&nbsp; a reading room terminal to access this digital content</strong>&nbsp;</span><br /></p><p>This collection consists of original reports and personal accounts concerning conditions in concentration camps with special reference to Neuengamme and Dachau. There are other papers covering such topics as political resistance to Nazism and plans for creating a free, democratic Germany. The material was collated and produced by an organisation called the <em>Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener.</em></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to book&nbsp; a reading room terminal to access this digital content</strong>&nbsp;</span><br /></p><p>The Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener was founded in the immediate post-war years to represent the interests of former political prisoners. In 1947 it changed its name to the <em>Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes</em> to include all those who suffered under the Nazis. This anti-fascist organisation still exists with branches all over Germany. Hans Schwarz was born in Vienna in 1904. He had already been imprisoned well before 1933 along with Bruno Kreisky and other Austrian Marxists. He was a political prisoner in Dachau from 1934-1944 and from October 1944 to April 1945 in Neuengamme. A committed opponent of the Nazis, he was a member of illegal prisoner organisations in both concentration camps. Paul Anderson (previously Harald Müller) was born in Hamburg in 1908. He came to London in 1934 and worked as a political commentator for the BBC. Between 1945 and 1947 he was Paris correspondent for <em>The Observer.</em> He died in London on 9 March 1972.</p> Open