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August Lütgens — Wikipedia (en)

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August Lütgens (16 December 1897 – 1 August 1933) was a communist activist who spent the 1920s exiled in the Soviet Union. On returning to Germany in 1930 or 1931 he became a leading member of the paramilitary "Red Front-Fighters" ("Roter Frontkämpferbund" / RFB) in the politically volatile Hamburg region. In 1932 he was involved in the Altona Bloody Sunday street battle and, following the National Socialist power grab at the start of 1933, he became a victim of "Nazi justice". On 1 August 1933 August Lütgens was executed: four men were convicted and executed at the same time, but Lütgens was identified at the time as the leading figure among them, and of the four cases, it is the one involving Lütgens that has received the most coverage subsequently. As one of the first and most highly publicised government opponents to be executed after the rapid switch to dictatorship in 1933, August Lütgens was soon being celebrated by government opponents as "one of the first victims of fascist justice to be killed". His fame was further enhanced after 1945. Particularly in the Soviet occupation zone (relaunched in October 1949 as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic / East Germany), he was celebrated as an antifascist hero. A naval academy was even named in his honour. Lütgens had been convicted in 1933 by a "special court", and in 1945 a campaign was launched in Hamburg to expose unsatisfactory aspects of his trial and secure rehabilitation for Lütgens and the three men executed with him. In 1992 the Hamburg district court reversed all four of the earlier judgements, citing "manipulations of justice" ("Justizmanipulationen").

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «August Lütgens» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_L%C3%BCtgens
Wikidata Q762903: «German sailor (1897-1933)» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762903
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