Across
the planet and through the years anarchist have come in for some
brutal and truly barbaric treatment at the hands of the sadistic
dupes of the state. We could probably fill the London telephone
directory with names of our comrades who have suffered in this way.
February marks the 78
th. anniversary of the arrest of one
such comrade. The following from
wikipedia.
Mühsam was arrested on charges unknown in the early
morning hours of 28 February 1933, within a few hours after the
Reichstag fire in Berlin.
Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi
propaganda minister,
labelled him as one of "those Jewish subversives." It is
alleged that Mühsam was planning to flee to Switzerland
within the next day. Over the next seventeen months, he would be
imprisoned in the concentration camps at Sonnenburg,
Brandenburg and finally,
Oranienburg.
During his short stay in various concentration camps, Mühsam suffered dreadfully and was treated to unbelievable barbaric cruety. The following is one report of some of his treatment. Again from Wikipedia.
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"After breaking his
teeth with musket blows; stamping a swastika on his scalp with a
red-hot brand; subjecting him to tortures which caused him to be
taken into a hospital, even now the fascist hyenas of the Sonninburg
concentration camp continue their beastly attacks upon this
defenseless man. The last news are really atrocious: the Nazi forced
our comrade to dig his own grave and then with a simulated execution
made him go through the agony of a doomed man. Although his body has
been reduced to a mass of bleeding and tumefied flesh, his spirit is
still very high: when his traducers tried to force him to sing the
Horst-Wessel-Lied (the Nazi's anthem) he defied their anger by
singing the Internationale."
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It was even alleged that the
camp's guards had even ripped out pieces of Mühsam's beard in order
to make him look more like the caricatures of orthodox
Jews seen in anti-semitic
newspapers and tracts.
On 2 February 1934, Mühsam was
transferred to the concentration
camp at Oranienburg.
The beatings and torture continued, until finally on the night of 9
July 1934, Mühsam was tortured and murdered by the guards, his
battered corpse found hanging in a latrine the next morning.[3]
Those with power will always fear, revile and attempt to eliminate those who call for justice and freedom. The state will not tolerate those who will stand up to its threats, that is why it carries on its relentless propaganda against and repression of anarchists.
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