Anti-Fascist Resistance Fighters Committee
The Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters (KdAW) was an organization in the GDR for the maintenance of antifascist traditions.
History and organization
The committee replaced the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) , which was dissolved in the GDR in 1953 . It was an organization closely related to the SED . Without being a member, the committee worked closely with the National Front .
The organization was firmly integrated into the system. “Only those who recognize the leadership of the party of the working class today deserve the title of 'resistance fighter',” as a statement from 1958 put it. The members received the medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945 and were entitled to special payments in the form of honorary pensions . The importance of the KdAW has increased, especially since the memory of the resistance began to play a growing domestic political role in the GDR in the 1970s.
Organizationally, the central management was at the top. A presidium and secretariat were elected from its members. The KdAW was subdivided into district and district committees. In 1983 the organization had about 2,500 members. Subdivisions were among other things the section of the " Spain fighters ", the working group of former prisoners of the Brandenburg prison , working groups for inmates of different concentration camps .
The most important task was to “convey the wealth of experience of the national and international struggle against fascism”. These were z. B. also contemporary witnesses in schools. It thus played an important role in the "historical-revolutionary maintenance of tradition". In the 1980s, the committee was also involved in current issues such as the retrofitting debate .
The KdAW was a member of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR).
The committee also had close ties to the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Federal Republic of Germany .
In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the interest group of former participants in the anti-fascist resistance, those persecuted by the Nazi regime and surviving dependents , in short the interest group of those persecuted by the Nazi regime (IVVdN), succeeded the committee. The association's assets (1.7 million euros) were confiscated by the Treuhandanstalt in 1991. In October 2002 the IVVdN became a member of the Federal Association of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists .
See also
literature
- Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations (Ed.): GDR manual. Vol. 1. Cologne, 1985. pp. 734f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Ministry for Inner-German Relations (ed.): GDR manual. Vol. 1. Cologne, 1985. p. 734.
- ↑ Federal Ministry for Inner-German Relations (ed.): GDR manual. Vol. 1. Cologne, 1985 734f.
- ↑ a b Our story at berlin.vvn-bda.de, accessed on January 8, 2016.
- ↑ see also the final report of the Independent Commission for the Review of the Assets of the Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR , PDF, 1050 kB ( Memento of the original of December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
