Communist Leader and Politician. Albert Kuntz was the head of the German Communist Party in Berlin, Brandenburg, and Frankfurt, and the Deputy of the Prussian Landtag. He began his adult years as a skilled coppersmith and organized a Worker's Council in Wurzen. In 1929, he went to The International Lenin School in Moscow and afterwards, he won election to the Prussian Landtag. Albert was arrested on charges of high treason in 1933, and acquitted. He was immediately rearrested and taken into protective custody. While an inmate in Buchenwald, his reputation was growing as a leader in the anti-fascist movement. He helped run an illegal Communist Party group in Buchenwald. He was then transferred to Dora-Mittlebau Concentration Camp where he was believed to have led a group of saboteurs against the V-2 rocket development program there. He was interrogated for information about sabotage by members of the Schutzstaffel without success in November of 1944. The interrogation resumed on January 22, 1945 and Albert Kunz was found hanged the next morning. Following his death, he gained great admiration by workers' movements, and was believed to have withheld information in spite of torture. A bakery in Cuba is named after him. In Germany, a sports stadium, a park, and four streets were named after him. More recent revelations made it known that his status was largely the result of Nazi propaganda. The failure of the V-2 rocket was due to the fact that it wasn't ready, and no sabotage took place. Albert was murdered because he betrayed a comrade.
Communist Leader and Politician. Albert Kuntz was the head of the German Communist Party in Berlin, Brandenburg, and Frankfurt, and the Deputy of the Prussian Landtag. He began his adult years as a skilled coppersmith and organized a Worker's Council in Wurzen. In 1929, he went to The International Lenin School in Moscow and afterwards, he won election to the Prussian Landtag. Albert was arrested on charges of high treason in 1933, and acquitted. He was immediately rearrested and taken into protective custody. While an inmate in Buchenwald, his reputation was growing as a leader in the anti-fascist movement. He helped run an illegal Communist Party group in Buchenwald. He was then transferred to Dora-Mittlebau Concentration Camp where he was believed to have led a group of saboteurs against the V-2 rocket development program there. He was interrogated for information about sabotage by members of the Schutzstaffel without success in November of 1944. The interrogation resumed on January 22, 1945 and Albert Kunz was found hanged the next morning. Following his death, he gained great admiration by workers' movements, and was believed to have withheld information in spite of torture. A bakery in Cuba is named after him. In Germany, a sports stadium, a park, and four streets were named after him. More recent revelations made it known that his status was largely the result of Nazi propaganda. The failure of the V-2 rocket was due to the fact that it wasn't ready, and no sabotage took place. Albert was murdered because he betrayed a comrade.
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