1938 SONG OF GERMAN Concentration Camp & SPANISH CIVIL

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A series of great German recordings around WWI and post war, on exciting labels:

This is an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT Set of 4x 10" Records of the "OTHER" GERMANY under the 1930s Nazi Rule:

Made 1938 under siege by Falange Franco in Barcelona,  the holdout of the Spanish Republic. DISCOS DE LAS BRIGADA INTERNACIONALES ESPANA,

Ernst Busch with the Chorus of the 11th Brigade

Issued in the US under the Communist-Friendly Keynote Label:

Thaelmann Kolonne (TWO International Brigades were named after the German Communist leader, put into KZ and eventually killed by Hitler)/ w Guitar Lied der INter-Brigaden (Song of the Communist Internationale Brigades)

Busch w Piano:Lied der Einheitsfront (Song of the UNITY FRONT, aka Front Populaire)/Los Cuartos Generales w Guitar

EINHEITSFRONT has a STICKER: La impresion Defectuosa de este disco es debida a las interruptiones de energia electriaca durante un bombardo - the imperfect reocrding on this disk is due to a power failure during an AIR RAID.

Busch w Chor 11 Brig: Lied der Moor Soldaten (Song Of the Peat Bog Soldiers - From a German Concentration Camp)/Hans Beimler - a German Communist Hero and Worker Leader of the Weimar Republic.

Condition:

Great picture album with marching Internationalists on front, red plush cover on back. Light splits on spine, but binding solid, light fraying on bottom edge

Records are EXCELLENT faintest rubbing on Cuarto

Records are Ernst Busch, not to be confused with a Nazi General of the same name, was the Bard of the Communist Party in the Weimar Republic. A hugely popular singer of great integrity, he used his songs as a way to rally the working class. By a lucky circumstance, he escaped arrest by the SA in 1933. He stayed in the USSR in 1935, and joined in 1937 the INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE to defend the Spanish Republic against General Franco. Here is where these recordings were made. He was arrested by the GESTAPO in 1940, and accused of high treason. Barely escaping with his life at an air raid, the Red Army liberated him from Jail.

Post 1945, the East German government saw in him a poster boy (like Brecht) for the new communist state, but Busch was forced into "retirement" , as he had dared to criticise the General Secretary of the East German Government, Walter Ulbricht. Busch died in 1980.

Die Thaelmann Kolonne - The Thaelmann Brigade (Thaelmann was the charismatic leader of the German Communist Party. Still in 1932, he dared to be the Canditate for Reichs President AGAINST Adolf Hitler, but he was immediately arrested after Machtergreifung in March 1933. He was murdered in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in 1944

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