International Federation of Victims of War and Labor

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The International Federation of Victims of War and Labor was a left wing association of war victims and disabled workers during the Weimar Republic .

The association was founded in 1919 under the name of the International Association of War Disabled and Physically Disabled People, as opposed to the Reich Association of War Participants and Disabled Persons, which was dominated by the SPD , and at first was predominantly close to the USPD and later came under the control of the KPD . In 1923, the association, led by Karl Tiedt since it was founded, took on the name of the International Association of Victims of War and Labor . The main focus of the association's activities was the advocacy of the social rights of disabled people at work, in housing and rental issues and in the health sector.

Hugo Gräf took over the chairmanship of the association in 1927 after Tiedt was expelled from the KPD , and in 1930 the association had over 70,000 members. In 1933, after the NSDAP came to power , the International Association of Victims of War and Labor was banned.

The organ of the association was the International War Victims Bulletin .

literature

  • Michael Zander, Thomas Wagner: invalids, deaf-mute, tumult-damaged. The “International Association of Victims of War and Labor” (1919–1933). In: Junge Welt , August 19, 2009.