Lorenz Knorr

Interviewer: DGB-Jugend Hessen
Photographer: Pulse-team
Date of Interview: 2007-01-30

You would deliberately throw a spanner in the works, as long as you could and as long as you could breathe.

Lorenz Knorr

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Presentation, Introduction

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“We were warned”

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Antifascist poltics in CSSR

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Fascism in childhood and youth

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Battles against nazis, discussions about violence

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Political education/information

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Acts of sabotage

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Resistance in the German Wehrmacht

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Using codes

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Soldier in Africa

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Injuries and being a radio operator

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Relationship between men and women of resistance

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End of war

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Reasons for resistance

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Confirmation for antifascist work by the Socialdemocratic Labor Party of the CSSR

Short Biography

Lorenz Knorr was born on July 18th 1921 in Eger (CSSR), today called Cheb. He was the son of functionaries of the labour movement. Before WW2, he was a member of the social democratic party of the CSSR. During Nazi-rule, he participated in spreading information, publications, acts of sabotage on armament- and war-transports as well as in blowing up ammunition depots. He was called up for the German Wehrmacht and in 1942; he came in front of a court martial for undermining military strength. He was sent to a punishment battalion in Africa. Here, as well as later in occupied Poland, he found ways of antifascist action. From 1947-1950, he was county secretary of the Socialist Youth Germany and from 1950-1960 he was their federal secretary. In 1960, he left the social democrat party in protest, being opposed to its affirmation of the NATO-policies. Due to this, he took part in founding the German Peace Union.

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