The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

WITH Hitler so busy broad
" casting his filth to the
world these days, we take the
opportunity Of letting two of
his victims speak. One is the
worker, Hermann Fischer,
who was beheaded, and wrote
to his wife and children Just be-
fore he was put to death. The other
is Lieutenant Richard Scheringer
who was slaughtered during the
Bloody Week. Fischer was charged
with sedition and membership in
the Communist Party. Scheringer
was shot down without any charges
at all
COME time before Hitler came to
" power Lieutenant Scheringer.
who was an officer in the Storm
Troops, was in prison together with
members Of the Communist Party
of Germany. He became convinced
that Fascism was the creature Of
finance capital and that all of Hit
les promises were lies. AS a re-
suit, he wrote a bitter letter against
the chief Nazi butcher, calling on
the Storm Troopers to support the
proletarian revolution and the Com
munist Party. When Hitler came
to power, though his life was in
constant danger, Scheringer did not
leave the country He was caught
in movie and slaughtered when
Hitler gave the signal for massacre
ing the Storm Troop leaders.
Our comrade Fischer, the day beo
fore his head was severed from hi1
body, wrote to his wife, and his
two children, Edith and Egon, -
follows:
4" SEND you my last thanks foe
1 the years which you gave me.
happy years I spent by your side,
sharing joys and sorrows. 1 am
proud in the certainty that when q
thank you for your love, this love
is strong enough to bear with cour-
age what you have to bear now.
Words are no means of expressing
the happiness which you have
given me, Egon and Edith, but j
know you will understand, for at
our last meeting felt how strong
and deep your love is, and it gave
me the courage to face the execu<
toner, thinking of you All my
wishes accompany you on your fur
ther path through life. May you
have the power to smooth the path
of the children, that they may make
their lives as happy as ours have
been. Dear Henry, I have fully
realized the great happiness which
you gave me. I have nothing to
reproach myself with.
g" ANSWER for my deeds with the
utmost which I have to give, my
life. May you live to see the happi-
ness for which I die. Although I
fall, the flag stands strong and de-
f1ant. All those who trod this path
before me have shown themselves
to be men. I shall do so too. May
Communism bring emancipation to
all humanity. An idea which in
spires men to give their lives for
unity, love, and the highest aims
of the working class, will one day
be realized all over the globe.
MY last farewell to you and tbs
children. A last Red 'FRONT.' to
all friends and comrades"
JUST few days before he was
y butchered, Lieutenant Scheringer
wrote to some of his friends, 40
follows:
Dear Friends:
Il am sending this letter by.
who will report to you on all the
important matters, so that do noH
need to write in my present posts
ton. The next few weeks wiH
show whether my view of things id
right. Perhaps the tension of the
Storm Troops is not so strong all
over Germany as it is here. Every
one agrees with me that Hitler wiz
not bring socialism = they even
agree when maintain that he never
had the intention of bringing So
cialism. (He refers to his conversas
lions with duped Nazi followers!
We speak freely and often about
the Leipzig trial. The best of the
Storm Troop comrades approve of
my going over to the Communist
Party. This is very important.
"RUT ! fear that you have a very
= inadequate idea of the rapidity
with which the theological transa
formation for socialism is going on.
This transformation is going on not
only among the workers, but among
many Storm Troop leaders. You
must not suppose that am only
speaking of those with whom I
come in personal contact Il
shall name a few examples. We
must speak of these things in de-
tall when We meet, and draw up
flnal plans for autumn and winter.
"CONSIDERING its history, South
y Germany should be much more
rapidly radlcalized than the more
phlegmatic North If we adopt the
right methods, the club-footed
Goebbels will soon tire of quoting
Hutton.
How can you ask if l have
changed?
You seem to be influenced If
some dirty scoundrel writes cas- you
hint that I have gone over to the
Black front How could I % over