1979-1993 2 German Mark Coin, With Kurt Schumacher A Staunchly Anti-Nationalist German Socialist Politician. 2 Deutsche Mark Graded By Seller Circulated condition

Schumacher was staunchly anti-Nationalist In a Reichstag speech on 23 February 1932, he excoriated Nationalism sm as "a continuous appeal to the inner swine in human beings" and stated the movement had been uniquely successful in "ceaselessly mobilizing human stupidity".[4] Schumacher was arrested in July 1933, two weeks before the SPD was banned, and was severely beaten in prison. Schumacher was given the opportunity to sign a declaration in which he renounced any political activity if released, but unlike Fritz Bauer and seven other political prisoners, he refused to sign it.[5] He spent the next ten years in concentration camps at Heuberg, Kuhberg, Flossenbürg, and Dachau.[3] The camps were initially intended for exploitation of those deemed by the Nationalists to be undesirable people, such as socialists, communists, and criminals. Beginning in 1940, the prison camps were overcrowded with transports from the eastern front, leading to disease outbreaks and starvation. Beginning in 1941, the Nationalists initiated Action 14f13 to mass execute prisoners who were deemed unfit to work, and Schumacher and some other disabled veterans were granted leniency from the executions after they proved with their war medals that they had been disabled in service of Germany during World War I. The conditions in the camps continued to worsen and by 1943, nearly half of the prisoners died, in particular in Neuengamme of 106,000 inmates almost half died.[6] In 1943, when Schumacher was near death, his brother-in-law succeeded in persuading a Nationalists official to have him released into his custody. Schumacher was arrested again in late 1944 and was in Neuengamme when the British arrived in April 1945.

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