Ernst Thälmann quotes

Ernst Thälmann was a German communist politician and leader of the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic. His activism made him a central figure in leftist politics and a vocal opponent of the Nazis. He was imprisoned by the Nazi regime and is remembered as a martyr for the communist cause. Here are 4 of his quotes:

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

Ernst Thälmann

Translated After Hitler, our turn.

Ernst Thälmann

There were sometimes in our own ranks comrades who thought themselves cleverer and more capable of judging various questions than was done in the definite decisions of our World Party. Here I stress with the greatest emphasis: our relations with the Comintern, this close, indestructible, firm confidence between the C. P. G. and the C. I. and its Executive-this is one of our Party, the inner-political struggles and disputes in the past and of the higher political maturity of our Party generally.

Ernst Thälmann