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Erich Mühsam

1878–1934 · 20th century

Erich Mühsam was a German anarchist writer, poet and satirist. He helped proclaim the Bavarian Soviet Republic in April 1919 and was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment, serving until an amnesty in 1924. Arrested by the Nazis after the Reichstag fire in 1933, he was murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp in July 1934.

Erich Mühsam
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