Ernst Schneller 1940s Five Bronze Works, School Teacher Communist Anti Nazi WWII

Description: This is a group of five bronze panels, four of which depict different stages in the life of Ernst Schneller, the 5th a title piece reading 'Ernst Schneller 1890-1944.' The four larger panels each measure about 2.5" x 2.75" and the smaller one about 2.5" x 1.25". They are a sort of European, post-art deco mid-century industrial style and are all in generally clean condition. From Wikipedia on Schneller: Ernst Schneller (8 November 1890 – 11 October 1944) was a German school teacher. In 1914 he volunteered to join the army when war broke out. Sent to fight on the Eastern Front, he became politicised and radicalised, especially as the ideas behind the Russian Revolution filtered through to the German troops. After the war he joined first the Social Democratic Party and then, in 1920, the recently launched Communist Party of Germany. He served as a regional member ("Landtagsabgeordneter") of parliament in the Saxon parliament ("Landtag") between 1921 and 1924, and then between 1924 and 1933 as a member ("Reichstagsabgeordneter") of the national parliament ("Reichstag"). He was arrested in 1933 and imprisoned. Transfer to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp followed in 1939. On 11 October 1944, Ernst Schneller was one of 24 German camp inmates deemed culpable of "illegal activities", taken out, and together with three French antifascists shot dead by Nazi paramilitaries (SS). GUARANTEED ORIGINAL - NO REPRODUCTIONS! See our OTHER WWII ITEMS. See our OTHER BRONZE ITEMS. See our OTHER COMMUNIST ITEMS.WE COMBINE SHIPPING - SEE OUR OTHER ITEMS!bx4

Price: 175 USD

Location: Brentwood, Tennessee

End Time: 2024-04-15T00:07:16.000Z

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