Austrian Red Aid
The Austrian Red Aid was a section of the International Red Aid . It was created in 1923 as part of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) and from 1925 on, the Red Aid Austria appeared as a formally independent, but in reality, non-partisan membership organization controlled by the KPÖ.
After the Schattendorfer judgment , cross-party solidarity was organized, which led to a considerable increase in membership. Red Aid was not only committed to communists threatened by repression, but also to members of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers' Party and to those who were not partisans. In addition, money was collected for political prisoners abroad, for example for the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti imprisoned in the USA . Participation in the Red Aid groups often developed spontaneously in the factories during the Nazi regime in Austria, as a reaction to the arrest of colleagues, and often also as a result of arbitrary measures by the management. The Austrian Red Aid, which was headed by the Jewish communist Malke Schorr , existed legally until 1933 and later in the underground until the end of the Second World War .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nikolaus Brauns : Die Rote Hilfe Österreichs (accessed on December 12, 2014)
- ↑ Nick Brauns: Karl Kraus and the Red Aid Austria (accessed December 12, 2014)
- ↑ Nick Brauns: Karl Kraus and the Red Aid Austria
- ↑ Winfried Garscha (DÖW): Left Resistance - "Red Help" - Workers Resistance (accessed December 13, 2014)
- ↑ Walter Baier : An essay (edited by the Federal Board of the KPÖ) (accessed on December 12, 2014)