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Suppression of News in Germany and
Revolutionary or Progressive Political
Documents Prevented from Reaching the People


      In Germany, as in so many other countries, much of the real news about what is happening to the working class and the poor, and within the revolutionary movement, is either suppressed, or at the very least is not widely reported. And for reasons like this the claims that Germany enjoys a true “democracy” and “a free press” are gross exaggerations of the real situation. We at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET will try to help break down this government and media news and information embargo.

      Some of the documents here have the file extension “.djvu”. These files require the WinDjView program to read them. This reader can be obtained for free at: http://www.windjview.sourceforge.net   (Some PDF reading programs under Windows, such as the free SumatraPDF, can also read .djvu files. Linux users have the capability to read .djvu files integrated into their PDF readers of the major desktops: Okular in KDE, Evince in GNOME.)

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Suppression of News or Opinion in Germany:





Execution of a Communist
in Munich in 1919.

Kommunistische Arbeiterbund Deutschlands [KABD] (Communist Workers’ League of Germany) [1972-1982]:

Was formed by the August 1972 merger of two organizations which sprang from the 1968 student movement, the Kommunistisher Arbeiterbund/Marxisten-Leninisten (KAB/ML) and the KPD/ML-Revolutionärer Weg [Communist Party of Germany/Marxist-Leninist—Revolutionary Path]. Membership never exceeded 900 and on average seems to have been around 600. In 1982 it was reorganized into the Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (MLPD) which has evolved away from Maoism.


Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands [SED] (Socialist Unity Party of Germany):
     The totally revisionist (and social-fascist) party governing the German Democratic Republic [East Germany] while it existed.


Communist Party of Germany (KPD)

  • General:
    • [Book:] “Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State”, by Eric D. Weitz, (Princeton Univ. Press, 1997), 465 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [20,985 KB]  
  • During the Weimar Era:
    • [Book:] “Communism in Germany Under the Weimar Republic”, by Ben Fowkes, (London: Macmillan, 1984), 134 pages. (Fowkes is a historian and is a translator of Marx’s Das Kapital into English. However, you may wish to form your own opinions about some of his comments about the KPD during the Weimar Era, and about various revolutionaries of that era.)   Searchable PDF format   [3,554 KB]
  • During the Nazi Era:
    • [Book:] “The German Communist Resistance: 1933-1945”, by T. Derbent, (Paris: Foreign Languages Press, 2021), 128 pages.   English: Searchable PDF format   [2,586 KB]

    Academic and Historical Works on the Revolutionary Movement in Germany:

    • On the Attempted Socialist Revolution following World War I:
      • [Book:] “Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919”, by Sebastian Haffner, (Chicago: Banner Press, 1986), 224 pages. Somewhat messy scan; our apologies.   Searchable PDF format   [6,450 KB]  
        Epub format   [347 pages; 1,068 KB]  
      • “The Forgotten Revolution — Germany — A Conceptual Map”, by Gaard Kets and James Muldoon, (2019), 24 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [298 KB]  
    • On the KPD up until World War II:
      • [Book:] “We are Neither Visionaries nor Utopian Dreamers: Willi Münzenberg, the League Against Imperialism, and the Comintern, 1925-1933”, by Fredrik Petersson, (Ph.D Thesis, 2013), 598 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,956 KB]
    • On the GDP and the SED:
      • [Book:] “Marxism-Leninism in the German Democratic Republic: The Socialist Unity Party (SED)”, by Martin McCauley, (London: MacMillan, 1979), 287 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [31,295 KB]

    World War II Era — and Resistance

  • Europe in General:
    • [Book:] “Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936-1945)”, by Ingrid Strobl, (AK Press, 2008 [Original German edition was in 1989]), 338 pages.   English: Searchable PDF format   [6,659 KB]



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