Original 1933 anti-communist book in well used condition with a number of newspaper clipping additions, like a book you might find used to level a table leg in a conspiracy theorist's string room. They even used some paper to repair damaged pages. This is an odd book, and I mean this exact one specifically. There is even an English newspaper article in the back of the book. The spine and cover have some damage as do some of the pages.
Bewaffneter Aufstand! (Armed Uprising!) presents itself as a factual account of communist revolutionary activity in Germany—especially the Hamburg Uprising of 1923—but frames these events as a warning of the violent, subversive nature of Bolshevism and the German Communist Party.
The book uses photographs, police documents, and narrative to portray the uprisings not as heroic (as communist versions did) but as dangerous, foreign-inspired conspiracies against Germany. Its aim was to justify the suppression of communists under the new Nazi regime by showing that the KPD was an armed, insurrectionist threat tied to Moscow.
While this clearly puts an obvious spin on most things, it does at least present many things which have largely been swept under the rug by history. The extensive subversive communist operations underway across Europe operated by the Soviets.
