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Family Stories Series 2: Episode 6

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Karl Marx - A History of the War

During the weimar republic, Karl was deeply involved in the struggle against right wing extremism and narcism. This didn't stop when hitler came to power and all political parties were banned. One of his regular clandestine tasks was to pick up news letters and pamphlets offered by the s p d executive in exile in prague, smuggle into germany and pass them along the distribution chain. He was arrested carrying leaflets in the basket of his bike and brought to trial - a process that again involved a lot of violence against his person. In the concentration camps he worked at a chemical plant part of the i g farbin conglomerate.

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