August 1, 1933: Hitler Executes Communists

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🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Four communist men were executed by the Nazi regime for their supposed involvement in the Altona Bloody Sunday massacre one year earlier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Sunday, August 1st, 2021.
0:06.6	On this day in 1933, four communists were executed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi government.
0:14.2	This political stunt was the beginning of Hitler's efforts to silence dissent in Germany.
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1:04.1	listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of murder that some people may find
1:09.6	offensive. we advise extreme
1:11.5	caution for children under 13. Today we're covering the execution of four communists,
1:18.1	considered by Adolf Hitler to be enemies of the Nazi regime. Now let's go back to August
1:25.3	1st, 1933 in Hamburg, Germany.
1:30.3	It's not exactly clear what specific crimes the condemned men committed on their own,
1:36.3	but their individual actions weren't important.
1:40.3	August Lutgens, Karl Wolf, Bruno Tesh, and Walter Mueller weren't being killed for anything
1:47.0	they'd actually done.
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