Thread by @FalunJimmy

I read this very nice and short book on German Communist resistance to the Nazis, and I recommend it both as a fascinating and inspiring history and as a salve against the liberal bullshit narrative that's often taught about the Germans in Germany

the narrative we know is that the Communists fiercely opposed the Nazis, but were immediately put down by them, and didn't do much until the very end of the war, and then we learn a LOT about the White Rose and the Kreisau Circle

in reality, the Communists were the only ones who employed all forms of resistance against the Nazis for the duration of the regime

on top of that, if you're on the left, you might know a little about Antifaschistische Aktion, but not what happens afterwards. this book covers all that, and its very interesting to see how the German Communists act through basically their worst-case scenario come true

this chud spends 100 pages on the German resistance and only talks about the White Rose and the Kreisau Circle - literally revisionist history

ongoing printing presses and graffiti against the Nazi regime

here's some of the graffiti, seen during the 1936 Olympics

workers filling Panzerfaust anti-tank rocket launcher charges with sand instead of gunpowder, and many strikes and slowdowns

many German Communists joined partisan units in the USSR, Greece, or Yugoslavia

there's all kinds of stories of guys like this, just blowing up a whole mess hall of Nazis and stealing documents. the KPD escaping people out of concentration camps, the wildest stuff

one communist working in the decryption service at the Abwehr cost the Nazis 200,000 lives, according to one Nazi admiral

this hero defected to the USSR in June 1941, which is a very brave time to be defecting

incredibly, they resisted even at concentration camps. like Hogan's Heroes, but w/o any comedy. and they scrapped 80% of V2 rocket production

funny how they never depict the US army arriving at Buchenwald w/ the IMO already having taken over

in East Germany, no one who participated in the creating or carrying out the Nazi judicial system could be a judge, by law. in West Germany, thousands of Nazi judges continued on w/ their jobs

anyway this book's so short and good, only 128 pages. you can get the PDF here free, or the audiobook:

foreignlanguages.press/new-roads/the-…