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And we’ll never rest again…
8 May 1945: the Nazis unconditionally surrender.
World War II in Europe is over.
✊ Antifa patrol in a neighborhood of Athens
On this day, 9 April 1945, Georg Elser, a factory worker and folk musician who tried single-handedly to kill Hitler, was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp.
Working in a weapons factory and then a quarry, he gradually built up an arsenal of stolen explosives, which in 1939 he planted in a pub in Munich, which he knew Hitler visited every year on 8 and 9 November to celebrate the Nazi putsch of 1923. Unbeknownst to Elser, that year Hitler left early and the bomb missed him by minutes, instead killed six senior Nazis, as well as accidentally a waitress.
Elser was later arrested and tortured, but insisted he acted alone and refused to give up any other names, other than one of a communist who had already died. He was sent to the concentration camps, where he was killed on the orders of Himmler just a few days before their liberation.
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“Dissolve France! Defend Antifascism!
Solidarity with GALE (Groupe Antifasciste Lyon et Environs)
The State is the criminal organisation”
Mural in Sydney in solidarity with antifascist group GALE which has been banned by the French government for their anti-police activism.
The French Ministry of Interior recently made a motion to dissolve the organisation, and criminalize membership and support for the group.
