Location: Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Berlin, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany
Cause of death: Murdered at Oranienburg concentration camp
Photo taken by: Mutter Erde
But books by Erich Mühsam
German-Jewish anti-militarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. Also a cabaret performer, he achieved international prominence during the years of the Weimar Republic for works which, before Hitler came to power in 1933, condemned Nazism and satirized the future dictator.
Mühsam was arrested on charges unknown in the early morning hours of 28 February 1933, within a few hours after the Reichstag fire in Berlin. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, labelled him as one of "those Jewish subversives." Over the next seventeen months, he would be imprisoned in the concentration camps at Sonnenburg, Brandenburg and finally, Oranienburg where Mühsam was tortured and murdered by the guards, his battered corpse found hanging in a toilet the next morning.
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