Transport column Otto
The Otto transport column was a resistance group against National Socialism around the communist journalist Willi Bohn .
Starting in the spring of 1933, the group smuggled political newspapers and pamphlets that were produced in Switzerland , as well as weapons and food, via the Rhine and Lake Constance to southwest Germany, thus disseminating information that was censored by the National Socialists , for example about the bombing of Guernica .
The material was sent via the Badischer Bahnhof in Basel , among other places . The point of contact in Stuttgart was the hiding KPD district leader Wilhelm Dollmaier . In addition to communists, members of the group were border residents of all classes and ordinary smugglers.
The group came in October 1933 already targeted by the Secret State Police (Gestapo), and in addition to members of the group in particular were Willi Bohn and the distribution of smuggled magazines in the illegal KPD district headquarters in Stuttgart, for example, Walter Vielhauer arrested. Nevertheless, the group was able to continue its activity during the entire period of National Socialism .
literature
- Willi Bohn: Transport column Otto. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1970, p. 143.
- Willi Bohn: Stuttgart: Secret !. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1970, pp. 61-82.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung from September 15, 2013: The Badische Bahnhof in Basel The Badische Bahnhof - unique and unique. Retrieved November 13, 2014 .