Walter Block
Walter Block (born December 4, 1903 in Malchin ; † May 3, 1945 in Lübeck Bay ) was a German communist and anti-fascist.
The chessmaster Walter Block had been a member of the KPD since his youth . On May 26, 1939, he was arrested for participating in the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Mecklenburg and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . From there he was later transferred to the Neuengamme satellite camp, which was evacuated in April 1945. He was one of the thousands of concentration camp prisoners who were on board the Cap Arcona on May 3, 1945 . The ship was sunk that day by British Air Force fighter bombers in a wave of attacks on German ships in the Bay of Lübeck. Most of the approximately 6,000 prisoners were killed.
literature
- Heinz Schumann, Gerda Werner: Fight for the human right. Life pictures and last letters from anti-fascist resistance fighters . Ed .: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958, p. 649 .
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| SURNAME | Block, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist and anti-fascist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malchin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1945 |
| Place of death | Bay of Lübeck |