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The Myth of “German Socialism” - exposing the corruption of the Nazi Party by the freedom fighter Walter Ulbricht. Berlin, 1946 - first edition - Copy inscribed and signed by the author - Die Legende vom „deutschen Sozialismus“. Ein Lehrbuch für das schaffende Volk über das Wesen des deutschen Faschismus - “The Myth of ‘German Socialism - A textbook for the working people on the nature of German fascism’”. By Walter Ulbricht, one of the central figures in the establishment of the communist regime in East Germany after the Second World War. Published by Verlag Neuer Weg, Berlin 1946 - first edition - A copy inscribed and signed by the author. Rare. An important publication by the German freedom fighter Walter Ulbricht, the man who did more than anyone to assist in the establishment of independent institutions in Berlin after the war and who led the discussions toward the creation of a unified organization of free trade unions in Berlin. Here he reveals in detail where the funding for Goebbels’ poison propaganda machine originated, how the Storm Trooper units were established in every German district and village with extraordinary speed, who were the individuals who promised Adolf Hitler unlimited financing for the implementation of the Nazi ideology, how the collaboration between Hitler and the coal magnate Emil Kirdorf operated, how the German banking system supported Nazi propaganda, the secret agreements between Germany’s arms manufacturers and Adolf Hitler’s party before he was elected, how Himmler developed the Nazi SS apparatus, how Himmler organized the mass extermination of the civilian population, the extermination camps with gas chambers, the death vans, the gallows, the mass graves and the crematoria that claimed the lives of millions - innocent men, women, and children, the manner in which Alfred Rosenberg instilled Nazi racial doctrine among the civilian population, how all the economic resources of Nazi Germany were directed solely toward the war effort through the exploitation of the German workers themselves - contrary to what was publicly declared as if the regime were intended to serve the needs of the worker, Germany left millions homeless despite the promise of Adolf Hitler’s “housing program”, on the crimes of the German industrialist Hermann Röchling, how Germany took control of Austrian industry following the Anschluss, and more. “The twelve-year Nazi regime ended in the greatest catastrophe of Germany. Devastated and bleeding, Germany lay prostrate. The German name is covered in shame by the bestial massacres of Kharkov and Lidice, of Majdanek and Dachau. The death furnaces of Majdanek and Buchenwald stand as symbols of the blood-soaked rule of German fascist imperialism, which knew only one solution: to kill, to kill, to kill! Germany’s military defeat signifies at the same time the ideological defeat of Hitlerism. The veil of lies woven by Nazi propaganda has been shattered. Yet even after the harsh lesson of military defeat, there are still Germans who believe that Nazism once intended good things. Such views constitute a danger to the nation. As long as they persist, they serve as a constant seedbed of imperialist war ideology. The author of this work has therefore set himself the task of exposing the true nature of Hitlerite fascism and of proving, on the basis of numerous facts, that ‘German Socialism’ was nothing more than a propaganda weapon used to incite the German people to war”. (From the introduction). Walter Ulbricht [1893–1973] was born in Leipzig. As early as 1908 he joined the workers’ youth organization, and in 1912 became a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Ulbricht belonged to the Spartacus League, and together with the Leipzig Social Democratic organization joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). Ulbricht took part in the founding of the Communist Party of Germany and later became one of the leading officials in the party. In 1923 he was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He was a member of the Saxon state parliament, and from 1928 a member of the German Reichstag. As district secretary of Berlin-Brandenburg, he actively led the struggle against fascism, when a series of united actions against the terror of the SA took place in Berlin on his initiative. He lived illegally in Berlin from January 1933 and was forced to leave Germany, continuing his anti-fascist work from abroad. Ulbricht took part in organizing communist militias and was involved in several cases of killings of German policemen. When the Nazi Party came to power, it began persecuting the Communist Party after the Reichstag fire; many communist leaders were arrested, including party leader Ernst Thälmann. Ulbricht managed to escape and went into exile in the Soviet Union. At the end of the Second World War he returned to the Soviet occupation zone in Germany. The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was established in 1946,