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This chapter narrates and analyses the major public celebrations of international solidarity in Germany with a focus on Berlin as the scene of the celebration. In the first part, the focus of the analysis will be on the Arbeiterhilfe’s International Solidarity Days (1930–1932) that involved tens of thousands of people which, especially towards the end of the Weimar Republic, became the most important international solidarity festival.
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See especially Nadine Rossol, Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany. Sport, Spectacle and Political Symbolism, 1926–36 (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010);
Pamela Swett, “Celebrating the Republic without Republicans. The Reichsverfassungstag in Berlin, 1929–32,” in Festive Culture in Germany and Europe from the Sixteenth to the Fwentieth Century, ed. Karin Friedrich (Lewiston: Edwin Meilen Press, 2000), 139–159;
Pamela E. Swett, Neighbors & Enemies. The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929–1933 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 7–11.
The festivals of the German workers’ movement have recently been described in Matthias Warstat, Fheatrale Gemeinschaften. Zur Festkultur der Arbeiterbewegung 1918–33 (Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 2005).
On the LLL festivals, see Eric D. Weitz, Creating German Communism, 1890–1990. From Popular Protests to Socialist State (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997), 178–185;
Erich Weinert, ‘Fest der 100 000!’, WaA, 20.6.1930, BArch, R 1501/20197, 2.
Münzenberg, ‘Solidaritätstag der Internationalen Arbeiterhilfe’, Inprekorr 58 (1930), 1335.
Georg Dünninghaus, ‘Unter den Fahnen proletarischer Solidarität’, Mahnruf 8 (1930), 4–5.
Willi Münzenberg, Mit uns das Volk. Millionen marschierten am 3. internationalen Solidaritätstag mit der Internationalen Arbeiterhilfe (Berlin: Zentralkomitee der Internationalen Arbeiterhilfe, 1931), 17.
Dünninghaus, ‘Von Solidaritätstag zum Weltkongreß’, Mahnruf 7 (1931), 8–9.
see Robbie Aitken, “From Cameroon to Germany and Back via Moscow and Paris. The Political Career of Joseph Bilé (1892–1959), Performer, “Negerarbeiter” and Comintern activist,” Journal of Contemporary History 43: 3 (2008), 597–616.
Holger Weiss, Framing a Radical African Atlantic. African American Agency, West African Intellectuals and the International Frade Union Committee of Negro Workers, Studies in Global Social History (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
Münzenberg, ‘Der Weltkongreß der proletarischen Solidarität’, Inprekorr 96, 6.10.1931, BArch, R 1501/20197, 85.
Dünninghaus, ‘Vom internationalen Solidaritätstag zum Zehn-Jahre-Weltkongreß’, Inprekorr 68, 14.7.1931. BArch, R 1501/20197, 42.
Maxim Gorki & Romain Rolland, ‘Unsere Gruss dem Weltkongress der Internationalen Arbeiterhilfe’, AIZ 41 (1931), BArch, R 1501/20197, 86.
Otto Steinecke, ‘10 Jahre IAH’, WaA 186, 12.8.1931, BArch, R 1501/20685, 99.
See further in Bert Hoppe, In Stalins Gefolgschaft. Moskau und die KPD, 1928–1933, Studien zur Zeitgeschichte (München: Oldenbourg, 2007).
See also: Otto Heller, ‘Die Jubiläumsausstellung der IAH’, Inprekorr 98 (1931), 2219, BArch, R 1501/20197, 109.
See also Paul Friedländer, ‘Das neue Buch: Solidarität. Zehn Jahre internationale Arbeiterhilfe,’ WaA 29, 4.2.1932, BArch, R 1501/20685, 181.
Willi Münzenberg, ‘Vor dem Weltkongreß “10 Jahre IAH”, Inprekorr 91, 22.9.1931, BArch, R 1501/20197, 53;
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Braskén, K. (2015). Celebrating International Solidarity, 1930–1932. In: The International Workers’ Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137546869_9
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