Ernst Thälmann quotes

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. (Ernst Thälmann)
Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions. View quote
Ernst Thälmann
Translated After Hitler, our turn. View quote
Ernst Thälmann
There were sometimes in our own ranks comrades who thought themselves cleverer and more capable of judging various questions than was done in the definite decisions of our World Party. Here I stress with the greatest emphasis: our relations with the Comintern, this close, indestructible, firm confidence between the C. P. G. and the C. I. and its Executive-this is one of our Party, the inner-political struggles and disputes in the past and of the higher political maturity of our Party generally. View quote
Ernst Thälmann