World War II
Articles about World War II, resistance movements, opposition to the war and its protagonists.
Audrey Hepburn - Dutch Resistance courier
Born of wealthy fascist parents, actress Audrey Helpburn became a courier and raised funds for the Dutch Resistance in World War II.
Her father was Joseph Anthony Hepburn-Ruston, a wealthy British banker and Mosleyite. Her mother was Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch baroness who descended from French and English kings.
Her father abandoned her, and her mother abandoned her fascist views following the Nazi occupation.
Schmitz, Hans, 1914-2007
A short biography of German anarcho-syndicalist, militant anti-fascist and conscript to the Wehrmacht, Hans Schmitz.
Hans Schmitz was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1914.
His father,* a leading activist in the anarcho-syndicalist union the FAUD, was a devout Catholic and a convinced pacifist from both a religious and ideological standpoint (!). Despite this, as Hans Schmitz reports, he carried a weapon as a member of the “Red Ruhr Army” during the right-wing Kapp putsch.
Dutch Council Communism and Van der Lubbe Burning the Reichstag - The question of "exemplary acts"
Philippe Bourrinet on the reaction of council communists in Holland to Marinus Van der Lubbe burning down the Reichstag in Germany, and on propagandistic acts in general.
Feb 2003
It was the significance of the young Dutch council communist Van der Lubbe's torching of the Reichstag (27 Feb. 1933), more than Hitler's coming to power, which focused the debates within Dutch council communism. The latter was profoundly divided on the question of 'exemplary acts' and of individual violence against symbols of bourgeois order.
Bifolchi, Giuseppe, 1895-1978
Biography of an Italian anarchist communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War and then later in the Italian Resistance to the nazis.
Giuseppe Bifolchi aka Viola aka V
Born Balsorano, Italy 1895. Died Avezzano Italy 1978
Born in the Abruzzi in Balsorano on 20th February 1895
How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany throughout World War II
The following excerpts thoroughly document how capitalists really acted during the Second World War. Behind the patriotic propaganda that encouraged the working class to slaughter each other in the interests of competing national interests, international capital quietly kept the commodity circuits flowing and profits growing across all borders.
1919-1945: The Proletarischer Zeitgeist
A short history of the radical German workers' newspaper Proletarischer Zeitgeist from its birth in the AAUE union through its political development to its decline.
In 1922 the majority of the membership of the councilist union the AAUE (United General Workers Union) of Zwickau was expelled because of their participation in the works councils in the railway workshops and the mines. This majority retained control of the AAUE paper, Weltkampf, so the remainder of the Zwickau AAUE founded the paper Proletarischer Zeitgeist (Proletarian Spirit of the Times).
Glaser, Georg Katharina, 1910-1995
A short biography of worker, autodidact, writer, anarchist and anti-Nazi German Georg Katharina Glaser.
Georg Katharina Glaser
Born Georg Kreuz Glaser, 30 June 1910 – Germany, died 18 January 1995 - Paris
Georg was born on 30th June 1910, Guntersblum, Rheinhesse, Germany. Georg later changed his middle name which means Cross to that of Katharina in honour of his beloved mother.
Fedi, Silvano, 1920-1944
A short biography of Italian anarchist, anti-fascist partisan and local hero Silvano Fedi. Fighting in the Resistance, he was killed in a Nazi ambush in 1944.
Silvano Fedi
Born 25 April 1920 - Pistoia, Italy, died 29 July 1944 - Italy
1943-1945: Anarchist partisans in the Italian Resistance
Historical notes on the activities of anarchist partisans in the anti-fascist Resistance in Italy during World War II.
Lubbe, Marinus van der 1911-1934
A short biography of Marinus van der Lubbe, the Dutch council communist who set the Reichstag fire.
Marinus van der Lubbe Born 13 January 1911 - Leyden, Netherlands, died 10 January 1934 – Leipzig prison, Germany
