Socialist papers

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The socialist sheets (SB) appeared between April 1933 and August 1936 in a total of 40 issues, especially in Hanover as an organ of the social democratic resistance organization Socialist Front (SF).

Content

According to the programmatic text What should be written by Blumenberg at the end of May / beginning of June 1933, the Nazi dictatorship was repeatedly subjected to fundamental criticism in the SB with regard to its economic policy, corruption , war preparations and other things. The papers also dealt with the causes of the rise of National Socialism , its underestimation by the labor movement and its renewal.

But the Socialist Front led by Werner Blumenberg

“Was basically an organization for manufacturing u. Distribution of the "Sozialistische Blätter" edited by Blumenberg , "

which only bore this name from August 1934.

distribution

The technical manager Franz Nause was responsible for dispatch and distribution . The editions of initially 200 and in the end around 400 to 450 copies were mainly distributed in the working-class districts of Linden and Ricklingen , but also through distribution groups in Hildesheim , Otterndorf , Nienburg / Weser , Bad Oeynhausen and other places.

literature

  • Bernd Rabe : The Socialist Front. Social Democrats against Fascism 1933-1936 . Fackelträger-Verlag, Hanover 1984. ISBN 377162309X
  • Herbert Obenaus : Bourgeois in the social democratic resistance. The fall of the Socialist Front in Hanover. In: History of the Region. On the 65th birthday of Heinrich Schmidt , 1993, pp. 419–440.
  • Herbert Obenaus: Defeat and renewal of the labor movement. The concept of the Hanoverian "socialist sheets". In: H.-D. Schmid (ed.): Two cities under the swastika. Resistance and denial in Hanover and Leipzig 1933–1945 , 1994, pp. 71–91.
  • Karin Theilen: "Socialist sheets. The organ of the" Socialist Front "in Hanover , 2000
  • Klaus Mlynek : Socialist Front. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 573.