SEL 7c MARC Ed a ot- Mabe ot et rt the Communist Conspiracy on the Eve of the National RevolutionCommunism in Germany The Truth about the Communist Conspiracy on the Eve of the National Revolution By Adolf Ehrti, of the cover was designed m original photographs. Why Americans Should Read This Book Sor of Sov ate Here is a challen every thoughtful citizen hee: death struggle © objectives of same as are employed i ‘The lessons to be gathered from Germany,” should lead our citizens to demand more effective moasures of defense for our system of government, and our moral and social standards. ‘Warren C, Cour Haney A. Jone Joun Ross Drtarienp Samuet McRoserrs C.G. Norman Exzis Spares Warmer 8. SrreLe Arcimany E, Stevenson Jous B. Trevor A. Vax Onspen mew Mevico State Calversity LibresyContents Preface ve seseese é eer COMMUNISN. IN I. THE SYSTEM AND HISTORY 01 MANY 191828 (p. 11) — Soviet Munich [p. 16) — The Hamburg cultural Bolshevism, 2) — iat organization (p, 26) — Keren: trie Circles (p. 23) — The armed ri 28 (p. 29) — Inruption of the world revel 1 CONSPIRACY coves PPE IASB 451) — House searches alarm {pp. 31—82) — 1 59-75 espionage GP.U, (p. 63) — Batrayal of Soeret MOPR organization (p. 66) — prisoners (p. 88) — Passport forging of er smugaling (p. 72) IV. HIGH TREASON... seses PD TA=98V, THE ARMED RISING pp. 99-176. 8) Mobilization p99 ‘The principles of an ‘weapons [p. 100) — Theft of weapons (p, 101] — Weapons found {p. 109] —hett of explosives RE = Military traning {p. 110) — Red Army Preface i English-speaking history of hlly attracted the attention of all eivilized n: From the description in this bn reader will clearly realize what an important di Ad history has on between yy in the fight waged by ns that the Moscow Third Communist Internationale wished that the decisive battle inv the ‘world revohition should be fought on Germany soil. ‘The Iasting merit of the Gor ational Revolution will be that it saved the world from Bolshevist chaos. ‘The revelations rogarding the attempted Communist insurree tion on the eve of the National Revolution will eause a considerable 1 therefore be expressly stated that the description J, of high treason and treason to the n of the masses and of the plan sing is based exclusively on official material, of which the ity js beyond all doubt, The General League of German. Anti-Communist Associations will make the le for seriously interested students of pul take this opportunity of expressing our special thanks Is of the Reich and the Federal States who have ‘ permitted the author to examine the pertinent material. ‘ ‘the search My 137 — List of NSDAP, ¢ ies (p. 160) sensation, It mi of the Bolshev State, of the orga ) The Final Encounter 161 To Arms |p. 172) Vi. THE TASK : emp 17E Renaissance and Insurrection [p. 177) — TI ‘the Internationale {p. 178) ‘The present work serves the purposes of nothing by we unshake: for the ju i pamphlet special the burning. order not 10General League ‘of German Anti-Communist Associations Ewropa House, Belin “At the beginning of this year there were weeks when we were within a hair's breadth of Bolshevist chaos.” Chancellor Adolf Hitler {in his Proclamation of the 1s! September 1939 I. The System and History of Communism in Germany An armed rising is6I61 vaypunyy uy xewpsuiayazey acfurther steps. In their hearts they were all glad that the Soctal- | Democrats had dectined, Then suddenly Teddy. teed that he ‘Qespatched the couriers and the news worked like a bonh. bla ‘of what occurred, the heads of the ‘was appointedGerman Further | of strats The Rassian Chekist Goren-Skoblew work people, the erg,regateth Miscellaneous cultural organizations (singers, man- 300,000 150,000 300,000 m 120,000 \ 160,000 25,000 80,000 10,000 i 20,000 waiver thethree eccentric circles 4, § and 6. Each uniform front organization extends out of the original circle into the nox-Communist masses; thot 1s their idea and alm. Part of each elrele, which bas also the manage mnist fraction” in the Ianguage in hddition to the bulk of the the core or in the other uniform ‘The whole arrangement is system of modern the promoter, start companies ard a different quality. Taken all in all, the number of ‘his figure includes, of course, only the cote ‘r00ps of Gommunism, while, as is know and weakness of republican Germany wi absolutely calmly and impartially, can only be described as hopeless. It must not be forgotten that the Social-Democratie party, as the most important representative of republ part of the same front of Marxism, Judaism and Pacifism as its hostile brother, the German Commu ty. The lack of determination, the y and the corruptness which characterizes arty rendered it an alsolutely’ ant factor for resistance and one which the nation could not employ. Tt can therefore be said without exaggeration and purely on the basis of the facts that the really most dangerous opponent of Communism in Germany was not the state with the Social-Democratic party and the Centre party but the National- state off its balance with even greater forve. ‘Thus the rage and the hatred of the Communist Party were consequently concentrated ‘ut against the future of the Reich. ‘That was the situation in 1932. The steady advance of Nation Socialism confronted the Communist party with the question its very existence, What the republic liad tolerated and further for fourteen years would not be sulfered by a National-Social itself to he the ally of the We nemy, National Socialism. ‘The con the password given out for 1 ‘of 1982, but the pass-word was anti ‘The period of a con: was still spoken of at 1 Internationale in the au and was foll ‘The Marsi view that € ‘The task of Communist party was to movement and to bring Communist Internationale. ‘The 12th plenary jee of the Communist Internationale (EKKI) was held in Moscow at sginning of September 1932 sal jally that there could be seen ‘with absolute ss the prospect of the most yiolent «i class. differen In the resolutions adopted by this plenary meeting of the eo Germany is deseribed in fateful words as “the wound in Ei ‘Their aim was to establish themselves in this wound and t called Germany to bring‘The world was to be conquered by ‘The eastorn bord and Comanun and the frontier of th at one blow ac: marching through Germany. states, wedged in between a Bolshevist Russia vould have been overrun irresistibly, re been advanced IL. Conspiracy ‘ommunist organizations in Germany ‘one hand they were mass organi the stage of y nes, Tt must al itive Committe “unreservedly and fof the Exe: peasants! jis yoal_andAestroyed at once. Govermnent begat a ee EIN Th ‘out of illegal measures: — ) The members to be withdrawn. Payments sccounts ‘The weapons of whether they are at hor action Is being taken. ‘The observation of the various police head: valuable, If light is burning in the ya is a sign that police forees are beingtle. were to be destroyed immedi ind the members were even. no longer to frequent their usual heer saloon, Meetings of sever: persons were not to be held; in any ease the number of 1 present was never to exceed five, Even private quarters were to be cleared of party matter, The functionaries left their apartments and disappeared without se. Material Addresses, On the basis of in Russia and for the most mider the ‘the Communist Internationale of conspiratorial methods was as explained in the elasses for een ern eae iias Ga oa eet disintegration and eaplonage inside the streets, Tefore int of assembly or an illegal residence, ve carefully examined in order to see that they IME serve as a elue, When you go out into MsMax Halz in four different disguises: npsteious alr \dapted to the set to whieh the sevand asa dynamite ‘Among the fighting work Germany tal In hiding before his attest ) (Apel, 1921). section 2. 7cae Also the following eatchwords: — Mi Ebert Hérsing Immertren— wet — navy. According to sceret instructions issued by the Ted-Pront Fighting League of Greater Hamburg which were to be adopted ally later on, the following assumed names were to be used:— ferband 09) Revolver Cartridge — pla walking stick — RFR — uniform criminal police official — dog following assumed names were laid down ~ police offer a of assumed names was — grambler Cypher “— rile of the game in complete connection with the Comi eatchwords may appear simple and somewhat nai ‘of the carefully thought out real eypher system of the Gommui keys. We give below an example of the Communist Party's directions for eyphering issued in September 1932:— ‘The alphabet is divided into five groups of five letters each in the following way: — ba181K254670 the key which is used in eyphering. We ng address: — ‘Walter Marks Sp1818 29467 RVKLDI KXNDL Tellers required ext igures can, of coueypher in q primitive way by taking a eatehword for each number or various key systems ean be utilized in a complicated way. An illegal organization is just as dependent as a legal organi zation on a systom for the cireulati news that works well ‘The delivery af messages, orders, circulars, literature, etc necessary in order that the organization may become a Ii whole, We have already seen that sinee abou the Communist Party no longer made use of Office, ‘They had organized a parly post of their o% assumed addresses, agencies and couriers. The courier service represented the nervous system of the party, Its functions extended far heyond the smaller sphere of the communies it eeame a component part of the distribution of id wr first ‘were constantly under way bicycles in Berlin and, fears or even motor cars, To the courier the recipient were to remain unknown. several cou By the interp jers they completely Tost any grasp of the ex ‘The lowest gro Th was obyious that they made use of the sport of the red sport units in particular for the eourier service, as for example the motor cyele sections of the “Fichte” Workmen's Sporting Club, They hore the name of “Red Cavalry”. The motor s received five pfennig for every kilometer travelled. Another 1 of a reduetion ye well-known sap. Russit delivery agencies of the parly papers. It was only possible in part to ascertain what motor vehicles ers; in many eases stolen ears rer plates altered. But in any les were ascertained in Bavaria were probably ease the following courier vehi in February 1932:— A, Passenger TEN 6285 passenger ear) IN 8079 18025 (Fora) 11 N 0890 (DKW: taken to and in al be pat ends, U ‘pponentsExperts transmitter in Berlin in December 1932 which was used at that time for propaganda purposes. these ‘adoption of e suspected persons are constal cated to. jcial disparagement and denunc dangerous weapons used by to him whose name is LA few examples fromPersonal description: bora 8th October, 1 about 5 {4 4 in, Slight built, oval face, grey eyes, thick rnose and ears normol, light brown hale, small sear on upper Hp. Photogeaph available. Bauer, Walter, 22 Hichstestrasse, is a police spy. He present address 1s not fof assurance 0 112, He attracted the KIVD: is « police and Nazi spy. Beware of hi Deseription: Helght combed ack); ele Moser, Hermann | Miinzel, Eberhard. Both work as the Rotthns Youth Association, Description: Moser: ea, 20 years of age; brunette; 3 ft. 636 in. narrow fice; parted hair. Says he is Austrian Miinzel; 18 or 19 years old; height 5 f1. 42% in; oval faces dark hit, Photograph available ‘ier, Waller, c/o Sehmeidereit, 3b, An der Jerusalemer Kirche, Berlin 4s in touch with the criminal police, He Party becouse he enjoys more advantages there, He embezzled 4 marks out of the cell eash Lox. Otto, Wi already in the black list fo the party in Kolberg for embezrlement. He now sells arms in Ret 2st May, 1901 in Kolberg: wife to decide whether the justified or only serves as dotails in the black list, of resent the facts, this throws id characters who appear (© be so numerous in the Communi November December, 1932, Coast disteiets, Barbers, Richard, agement and the No description or fand did. sub ‘about lead in the company of superior Deseri height 5. ft, 1 8 years i brown height 5 11.10% ins ie; droping shoulders. narrow pinuply face, lable,In view of what happened during the Bolshevist revolution in Russia, there ean Communist Party and its ‘opponents in the event of Feldten, Harry, has embezzled about 150 marks in mass ‘organizations. pected that he thie stamp, and it must be ‘makes his sppearance. Deserip graphy avs the enemy which seizes sflsous affi ‘eatastrophe h July, 1894 in Memel. No details or photo- Is amounting to about Communism unders by no rs of national es of respected tute a hindrance in Germany. In many cases such ich many a peaceful » such a list was confiscate whose names were on the ed as soon as power h A similar list was fee Party for the Rubr Distriet iains the following managing committee of the Comm at 16, Rotter Strasse, Essen, remark: — We now real hold of them at ies of photographs, ut we eamnot get ‘our luck with the street ographs of fifty of ynal or unintentional nly noted by the had also been photographed ihe Bolshevist prineiple oppo: Essen terrorist through the agency lessness:— dealing with the outspoken necessary we teverest terrorism, revolution, it is adopted is ie question ost important spheres of activity of viee, a special apparatus f news which gradually merges 1. espionage and 4 e Fatal hour, oftheir in plete idea of the treacherous 1 small groups armed persons, seizure of stocks of arms tion of favourable opportu ebasing a large seale ) Aled fers "Dee Wo a8D) The mobile news se in connection wi Bi, Methods of work. nage and sabotage, high treason, ration of mass terrorism, and, the “Red Army”. ing, prepa assistance to The intelligence service is, alongside of the military fighting organizations, the mos! it component of the il apparatus, whieh itself, again, so long as the party is fothidden, constitutes the fi Communist Party. Th the impending armed news service and the fighting organizati special formations were also built up which no Ionger had to do with general agilatios propaganda, but were exclusively devoted to the dizect preparation of the revolution, Alongside of the intelligence service, me Party organization in (uation, The centre the following ‘we will deal with later. ‘The illegal parly organization in a narrower sense was formed in accordance with the instructions issued by headquarters at the beginning of September, 1982, out of various departments which were always indicated by letters and whose members worked be ereated which under assumed names, firmly organized The following sections existed: 1. Defence, — Ieltered A, charged with the supervision of the party ‘of the organization functionaries and the further examination of new members Nl be in accordance with 2. Courier servies, lettered J, with the usual functions revolutionary position But the 3 th the spectal function of establishing require, in order to earry patie sa pears tes cg 4. Police, lettered K, with the function of subversive work among ors will have amass 5, Defene force lettered W, withthe correponding fonction service by to be carried Unit (ted terrorist wet 2 serves roof ot the buidual miery Corsaons8, Military policy, lettered R, preperation of the armed rising with the immediate formation of sp Intelligence Sections (0.8.N.A.), Th the function of assisting Iy difficull tasks (sect KO, which works strictly brain of the armed the general In_ pursuit of subsidiary organizat for the rising also reorganized and lex of the sect 2 ist Party No. XVII No. XV 1 Manzano, red Hugenberg” respective the O.S.N.A, was to ereate an + Klingen n which was to work as a special organisin not of but in the party. About 10% of # s proofs of reliability 2 20th December, as ole structure sgutised ves of the party, ice being attachedleaders, a list of the Nuremberg police stations and of the National- Socialist Party and S.A. leaders, and further of documents in eypher and a 08 army pistol. It therefore appeared from this that in February 1932 this extraordinary fighting organization of the Communist Party was also in full working order. Finally, parallel to the illegal ‘organization, the so-called “An organization (Am=anti-military) was built up as the sharpest political offer it was also previously deseribed as the M organiza he G.K. (mixed commissi ‘The importance of the Am-organization is obvious from the fact that the leadership for the Reich was in the hands of Minzes berg and Schneller, while the presumptive legal party mn, Kippenberger, was obviously summoned to give Berlin district council is said Dr. Karl Theodor F...., who made use of an assumed name. ‘The structure of the “Am' org: jttees and sub-district com nose of the O.S.N.A. in a certain respect The following spheres of work we Espionage 7. Recruiting work among former members of the Arn In the middle of February i to develop the work among the former members of the Army with the greatest energy. Ont of them a reliable staff for the civil war army was to be ‘was at the same time to form the hackbone of the “Am” organization, In the “Am" organization too there was a cer with the citcles of the Red Front F in overlapping. menace to bring abou 4 organization in the sphere of political work was completed, organization was ready to undertake the fully prepared ti ‘They were also quite clear as to what had to be done at the moment when civil war broke out. Detailed instructions existed according to which the preparatory organizations were to be reorganised during the struggle and after its st fy on that day. With regard to this 1 manating fr an example textuall ‘A. Functions. In the arm 1e work of the direet political and is for‘The Red for yea III. Treason.It is quite natural that above all things the Intelligence Service of the K.P, zat ons itself, was in the country. The result Total mumber of pistols? ‘otal quantity Where are the (lo be marked self he misused as the betrayer wunist parliamentary groups ments, ultimately in the Reichstag thoroughly and accu ‘ward companies are employed. and on ships, were well: service of Moscow. Th by an army of age n of the fire pickets the fire pickets and the a urgent technical and = the Communist their many hundreds members were engaged ussian factory espionage. It was a ‘consider secret finite ost care must > were charged nwerke at Ludwigshafen jee showed that for some years a central office for pionage had ext i Germany and to pa in Berl rades or agents amet Is the security se of firearms, if‘and tar and within the compass of the building up of a chemical industry within in the Five Years’ Plan. According to Schmidt's confession, many important secret provesses and patents wore betrayed {0 the Soviet-Russian espionage whence they were passed fon to Russia, According to Schmidt’s statements, industrial espionage is of two different kinds: the theoretical and the practical, All members of the party working in industrial under- takings are pledged to the first. They are instructed to inform their party of all important events and changes in the working of the works which come to their notice. For practical espionage which aims at getting possession of valuable manufacturing secrets only a small number of specially gifted and trustworthy members of the party are emp Steffen's case was obviously one of practical espionage. The trial ended by Stoffen, Diensthach and Schmidt heing sentenced each to 2 years’, Ochlenschliger to 5 months’ imprisonment, ‘The attitude of the culprits is revealed in one of Steffen's intercepted letters which ran as follows: "We don’t call it espionage, but economic assistance.’ ig helween the years ses of factory espionage were discovered, ani alone, some 3,300 legal actions were necessitated hy such crimes, ought to make both, authorities and private undertakings, consider the matter seriously, A further example of works’ espionage was brought to by the trial of the electrician Fried. Thiele for works’ espionage carried out by him at the 1.G.Furhenwerke, near Bitterfeld in February, 1931, Thiele was sentenced to 3 years’ penal servitude, Thiele was president of the 1.G’s workmen’s council and a member of the 1.G’s works’ council. His fellow-aecused were, without exception, members of the German Communist Party and the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition. Thiele tried to get hold of the whole manufacturing process of the Bitterfeld works of the .G.Farbenindustrie A.G. and to obtain possession of details, especially of the production of magnesium, nitric acid, phosphorus and light metal. ‘The knowledge spying was to reach the cont Party by roundabout ways and eventually de facto as well as in the legal appreci proceeded from the fact that the foreign governments, especially Soviet Russia, have been trying to keep themselves well posted as to what is being manufactured ny and what methods of production are prefors to make use of the e members of the German Communist Party, because the latter consider it their duly to place themselves at the disposal of a country which serves them as a model in political, economic and cultural respects and whose example they follow as a matter of course. ‘That the individual authors were acting on the instructions discov Service, who had heen instructed t of the German in We have proofs 0: It is clear, even from these few © sof the working lary importance. zations in. Germany. snberless police and trials before th Court, it has been proved that 1. @ foreign section of the Muscovite G.P-U. was working jet-Russian organization controls A case is well known of the Embassy in Paris, Bessedowshi, the walls of the Paris Embassy building in Cheka agent Roisemann, At that time, th as the Hamburg Sections of the G.P.U, had “flying detachments” at their disposal, Names do not play an important part with the agents of the political demi-monde, ‘They change from day to day without the ight name being known at all. This is especially true of one f the most dangerous G.P.U. agents in Geri jas Twanow, alins Krassnopols! jact with a number of highly ian Communist Volodiya, the herzimann, the German sunst, "Just hefore 27th February Boris Nicolaeviteh went back to Moscow. ‘The G.P.U, agents are no novices in their profession. They proceed with the greatest smartness and have acquired the art Of protecting themselves against police observation. When caught. such an agent refuses to speak, His obstinacy goes so far that at times, as, for example, in the case of the Communist Otto P., he by committing suic pproach member of the German induce him to get for them news “6 Communist PartyIt is a matter of course that the Inv GP.U. worked with all the tricks of cunning conspirators operating under assumed names or false addresses, four or five at a time, with secret lodgings, forged passports, secret codes, disguises as commercial travellers or tourists, ast not least with provocation, counter-espionage, denunciation, terrorism secret co) the other mare or less cunning means of a well thought-out organization of the political underworld. If, from time to time, all these things are reminiscent of a fantastic detective novel, it is true that here, as often, facts are ‘much more fantastic, more complicated, and more’ gruesome than the most daring fant Out of the wea bbe quoted. As is well known, there has existed in Germany for nearly ten. years the so-cal ‘dent Society of Germany”, a section of the International Red Provident Society, known by the Russian abbreviated name of “MOPR”, to all outward seeming, mn for humanitarian and of authentic material only a few eases ean by Moscow. But the whole of the to 3,700,000 marks which was also pai organization is managed by Walt berg, the notorious “Red Hugenberg”, who, on his visit to Moseow November 1931, received no less than one million gold roubles, to spend on the development of Communist propaganda Germany. The secret organization of the Society organized, the help of the G.P-U., passport-forging centres, so that in Berlin, Hamburg and Danzig no fewer than 5,000 passports and 10,000 certifientes were issued in the course of four years, ‘The Red Provident Society secretly stood in close connexion with the Derutra (German Russizn ‘Transport Company Ltd), which ostensibly, carried on a genuine transport business with Russia, Kaolin, the Hamburg agert of tho Derutra, was at the same time the representative of the Contral Committee of the MOPR for Germany. ‘The forging of passports and the el connexion with the transport company had a quite definite Purpose: to free political prisoners and get them out of the country, especially to Russia, Horst Wessel’s murderer found refuge in such a centre in Prague which was under the management of the Ukrainian (i ‘The hiding of prisoners etc. was generally effected in the following way: ‘As soon as 1 Communist had escaped from prison or was expecting to be arrested, he was taken by moter car to one of the various frontier-crossing places, either in the north to Lauen, in the south to Reichenbach-Glatz or in the west to Moppen. Here he obtained ‘without difficulty a temporary frontier passport for one day, where: ‘upon he promptly disappeared with the help of friends. In case of threatening arrest, the following course was. pursued: he refugee went to Danzig, whence he proceeded to Soviet Russia Soviet steamer, In other cases, the refugee took the route from Stettin via Sassnitz to Boraholm, where he was landed at a definite, so-called “conspirators nse” of the MOPR, The second way has, up to now, caused no difficulties; the transport of the refigees was fastomatieally and carefully organized and no failures have been reported, Specially selected persons ymong them:— committed to illegal. sc were sent from Moscow to Germany, who from 1922 to 1926 worked the OGPU and ‘4 member of the special group from the start, ‘ex-agent of the MOPR in New York, He All these persons are in possession of foreign passports. A Lithuanian woman; a German; a Polish Jew. In addition to its visible management the Red Provident Society had a secret headquarters of its illegal organization, corresponding to the illegal organization of the party. Very probably this headquarters was composed of the following persons 1, Kurt Purtwendler, Social Democrat (left wing), member of the 1¢ of the heads of in touch for MOPR. He As he is above all opeste ‘The Communist member of the same time manager of the Reichstag, Siegfried Redel, at ‘king. Commu Wi — personal descrip Issued in Bert Michaelis, ‘The passport was dated from lieket and RM, 20 tra nsherg wi ‘money, he went to Russi With ai ommunist Party, Forgeries were made of entrance cards for lection meetings and conferences of all kinds, admission-tickets police dwellings and barracks, S.A, idensity-eards, police identity- cards, even coins and bills of all denominations which were iufactured in Communist forger's dens. A forger’s den of is mature was discovered in August 1982 in the so-called Ginge at Hamburg, when 16 firearms, 8 military rifles, steel ssers, rubber truncheons, iron truncheons, daggers, knuckle- n were found in the same building, kind of . theft mbers GPU. abroad, heard. The following method of curing of foreign passports:— cedure w A 15th, tas adop October, 19 was engaged at a factory in Leningrad med KB, 48a of the November, 1982 is sti ‘The following del i within the memory of all, are taken from the poliea ——— \e German Commu- strations and escapes to rested, Seven Forged copies of official documents Leningrad, Nestler adinits having made copies and sold pass forms to the German Communist Party. On 28. 2. 1988 the negative of at 25, Lindowerstrasse, Berlin, In the cellar there was a co ‘may bi at the smuggling of P.G.U. a the smuggling of illegal jal section of C work, n of a protected and safe frontier e through so-call T give material ete, necessit that is to say, the organi extracts from thi 0 groups. in Aistriets, the following jecker Wald, Auerbacher Ws he frontier distr railways, us. 9: Hennebach, Landwiist X, Wernitzgrin X, Enbahrunn X, digersgriin, Steindébra, Sob) Mihlhansen X Bad Elster X +} + = Railways: N= Roads AIL the det the thorough work, munist Party 1 foreign powe n Internationale in Moscow. The idea is monstrous that this net- work of fraud, spying, forgery, subversion and foree has for years over Germany without the government ever having made ‘a serious attempt to break the net in whose meshes they have Jong enough been unwittingly entangled, It became very obvious that the intention was to concentrate the G.P.U. work in Germany more and more, to prepare it more and more for the coming decision as one of the most important instruments of the armed rising and of the coming dictatorship of the Communist clique.rk of sub- IV. High Treason.For example, there was su Moabit, Observation showed that iy in a few cases, What subjects programme and conversation will, ase rule, turn to t chances are made use of discussed meetings — ilegat dem In harmony with the 1 the subversion of the army, jertaken hy the Am-organisation professiona he whole organization of Communism wa activity. sentences from the clreular of the regarding the — _—— but also for the purely practical, treasonable hharmless they may seem. aire is another proof. ‘members of a party confer of the heads of ‘There are natw- We want to help you— 41, Have you any acquaintances or relations in opponent organizations fof any kind, of whom you know that they are already uncertain or sympathize with us? 2 Do you know any tec undertakings vital tea? , Haye vou uny relations, acquaintances or schoo! friends in concerns vital in wir and pence who eontral the life blood of such concerns? 4. Haye you any connexions with the Social Democratie Party, Reichs Danner or free-trade eal workers, engineers or ‘war or who work in research inst ists in "Teno, Stablhelm or always keep your eyes open for provocateurs and agents rk in our ranks? now that the police are trying might and main to smuggle nature into the party? ¥y acquaintances who do business with such people? that umpleen comrades have friendships wit ‘ances who are employed by people Don't think that your information is Name, No. Day. With unsurpassed energy and minuteness of det 38 were spied upon and the way paved for Hh questionnaires were frequently distributed, with the ob- jeot of their being collected in some central office, gone through ‘and made use of, They were carefully studied when it was a ter of spying upon the police forces, the S.A. and SS. The following sheet of questions was distributed hy the head oft the enemy observation section to all members of the Int rice and the enemy observation section immediate answer: 14. Ts there a Nazi bareacks in your sphere of work? er of men, How stmcd, emrbines, mac How are they guarded? 1) Whore ary the SS. and S.A, cars garaged? MAE ee comet peo many are there and where are they garaged? reasons “The expulsion of the Sketches prodsced at 1 ay of or fnther sketches, sce page 80. ‘expelled men is as follows: to gs sary precautions being observed, oroni ing ground. | Where are the stocks of arms kept? ‘ong is the guard of the uidding when ‘carbines, machine pistols, 08 pi ing om the opponent follows nati remy obser ‘is at the disposal of the comrade concerned on hi stating For what purpose. ‘The comrade concerned will reesive further information on re~ porting. Section 25/27. Results of the Communist espionage have heen seized ceases, eg in the 1 ‘sketehes here reproduced were found in VouIV, The Hine of propaganda, The work among former soldiers. Crue VIL The organizing of the revolutionary work among soldiers... 18 leruiuce and table of payments, IL Strictly confidential. Not suitable for the normal run of business 5 fect — the police during and after the armed rising) 16—17a of propaganda eneral poin's of view — politi lines of demands) 18-20 on of literature} 21—22 2325, 6 idle of January 1933 St1,10, — 4. 12, 1982 | 1.4, — at, 8 1088 fere sentenced on account of subversive ‘work among army and police. On an average, then, last year, there were $—4 cases of subversive work per day, a sentence was pro- nouneed by the Supreme Gourt every other day, and every week no fewer than four arrests were made. fewer than 169 persons How over the whole field of Communist acti jon ineraased from 14, at. 3, 1999 nna 139 En 36 4s 2, Number of arrests 2% ©. Total 1. Number of police investigations 256 7 2, Number of arrests 50 I al ‘Thus the number of subversive attempts investigated by the ice was almost doubled between the last quarter of 1932 and We first quarter of 1983 and the number of arrests was consider- ably larger. The number of police investigations made on account of subversive atlempts among the police forces and that of the 1982 and the beginning of 1938 may be seon from the survey:— 4 34‘Ahrown into the wells of staircases or even into lavatories, Leaflets and proclamations of subversive character have often been posted up or even attached to the walls of military hospitals, During the army manoeuvres the subversive organization worked with inserip- ns on walls, elage groups, transparencies and literature through he post. Attempts were made to sabotage and cripple the 1. Make a sketch of the prineipal entrances i metres, Pat in police barracks, how armed. How many men in euch barracks? Where ate the flying squads stationed? 1y barracks. dopots, garages? are the strategic parts of the town? ‘Tramways, depois. ‘and works with description (gas, ele wr example, during the day set aside for the “Protection st gas” in January, 1983, a leaflet in the apparent form of an ial announcement and with a of 20,000 was posted n the morning on the walls of houses. ‘The organization use of the election results) party, our orgninzation and all 1¢ type for Ieaffels and subversive literature of this kind is mposed by reliable members of the party. Harmless and ignorant employed then take busy beer siloon where it } Where housed? 4) Stores? fe) What means of transport? with exact figures must beg chai establishments on payment of a bi races are imme. diately destroyed. At the hour agreed upon, a motor car is driven. ‘p and Toads. inted matter which is brought to its destinal vehicles being changed on the way y sent by me: iers to ‘mediate places in small parcels from various post offic jurally, with a disguised address and misleading env tribution to the lowest subversion unit is ultimately made from riers of an uninterested party. The form of a parcel, but alway: tor car owners tof ‘wilt political opinions of the owners. Informai ‘enemy organizations. Lists of names and addresses to be arranged for the most part according to streets Case of the turner Heintich M., Hanover, structions rogarding the or for work among armod forees. whom were fou 'y of the special se sments pronounced by the Supreme Court e found in the archives of the League of Germa ist-Associ treasonable results of Subversive A motor eycle for you, too. Latest a tille which concealed the illege Command, Sed year of publication, into the entrances homes. Italways served the forces, there arepany are le sich 95 per cent of th rit] for every ‘out of a boot nal’ referred to is a sort of camouflaged subyersion product. The cover sl ture of ssword puzzle with ding: jon number 10 pfennigs. Puzzle Corner, Berlin. Oblainable at all booksellers, stat is pri Command IH district” followed by an invitation to participate in fascist propaganda and the anti-war congress. The publishers fare again said to be Pilger & Co, but the address is different Berlin,S.W. 08, Puttkamerstr. 19. Several handbills were manoeuvres 1982 and in addition, work in the Army, under the 1 document contains the stations, in the fic, Distribution of subver posters on power he following words’ “We greet yous vd quite openty _ KP.D. int in 1520 W.B. ‘Rater Polizei-Fut journal of the lover and middle ranks of police uspection No. B, —- December, 1982, “Der Feind steht im eigenen Land! 1 of the revolutionary young workers of Germany Besides the regular publications illegal subversive handbills and pamphlets were smuggled into the army, nay and police forees from time to time:-—alice officers!” An eye Shoot the hungry’! No The double face of Red Pacifism, (reproduced from “Enifesslung der Un p. 241 whide contains d wen publications, The, von Ossitzky, who was sentincad to nd ex-Reichoweht Lieutsubvers fellows! it may be on nat of troops. ‘Treason is Infectious disease. The example leads to temptation, rumour exaggerates the event, strengthens the ranks of the aggressor and has a demoralizing effect upon the defence. On the other hand, the work of s1 even if considered s, however, s the closest ith all other communist actions: subversion and Morked band in hand, which is destined at a atlale. mpment io, Mew the ene fortress into the ai ’ = V. The Armed Rising. tor civil war is of seeret gal organization, ‘These di jer one leadership. his plans, rey Red Front. the day of armed rising a wdequale supply ing must always If things eome to-a crisis an the greatest empha: ‘be laid on procuring a of arms and ammunition. Although the armed r) land everywhere be n mass a final death blow, nevertheless the result det an to man, in the open street and on the barricades. At the last resort the fate of the Revolution depends on the terrorist group. wy revolution is Je to certain rales. Aestruct ‘opposed have the ad rity entirely on thair sie. them one will be beaten s the elsing hs bogun one must eet with ‘and selae the offensive, ‘The defensive means Tarmed revolt itis lost before battles joined. Surprise the his toops ure dispersed; try and get daily new, even he mora} superiority which the first is given ou; bring all those elements over to your ft uncertain but who always follow the strongest co)‘hey ean rally orees against You) RAAT wor of Danton, er of revolutionary tueties) "de bricks, boiling water in the working ie armed riving to destroy the apparatus of government and to seize power for the proletariat takey the form of a ri struggle betwoen the ly organized part of the proleta ie one hand and the likewise militarily organieed forces of ring classes on the other hand, fred Langer continually emphasizes that the proletariat must is presented with weapons from some quarter or ther procure them itself in every conceivable way theft, robbery, murder, ete. he Communist party in Germany acted according to these prin- les. Apart from the delivery of arms from abroad — either by courier from the east or through smugglers from the west — the Communist fighting and terrorist organizations procured all their weapons themselves, The theft of explosives and weapons was the favourite method of self-arming for the proletas The fon from Kaa Mars, evel feuberg’ Der hewaffnete Aufsand.* page 192, ‘of Hamburg ex} ling in arms. elle, who was important sources of arms and explosives yt factories ab rhe sho the chemical concerns, all of wh from by the fighting organizations of the K.P.D, and their weapon-procui ourt*) actions against Kohn of Au hebring ude snd 10