In this book Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communists
in political violence during the years of Hitler's rise to power in
Germany (1929 33). Specifically, she aims to account for their
participation in street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting' with National
Socialist storm-troopers. The origins of this conflict are examined
at two levels. First Dr Rosenhaft analyses the official policy of
the Communist Party towards fascism and Nazism, and the special
anti-fascist and self-defence organizations which it developed.
Among the aspects of Communist policy that are explored are the
relation between the international confrontation between Communists
and Social Democrats as claimants to lead the left, and the
implications of this dispute in German politics; the ideological
difficulties in the implementation of Communist policy in a period
of economic dislocation; and the organizational problems posed by
the fight against fascism. Dr Rosenhaft then explores the attitudes
and experience of the Communist rank and file engaged in the
struggle against fascism, concentrating on the city of Berlin,
where a fierce contest for control of the streets was waged.
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