The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
The Frame-up Against Thaelmann
An international PrOvOcatiOn

sands of printed statements. Among
the printed material issued by the
Communist Party is none which
conveys any such suggestion.
Even after the burning of the
Reichstag by the national socialists
and after the letting loose of a
horrible wave of terror against the
working class, the Communist Party
did not proclaim revolutionary
instruction in view of the attitude
of the leaders of the social-deno-
cratic party and of the German
refornlist trade union fedederation
(AD.G.B) and in view of the il
lusionS which were harbored by
great masses of the middle class and
of the peasantry.
In April 1888, an official article
by Fritz Heckert appeared in all the
organs of the Communist Interna-
tional dealing with the question of
whether the tactics of the Commu-
mist Party of Germany in the spring
of 1888 were correct or not. This
article pointed out that it was pre-
cisely Goering's plan to provoke the
Communist Party into launching an
armed instruction and that the
Communist Party acted absolutely
correctly in refusing to fall into the
trap prepared for it.
Although the brown terrorists
may pretend that they do not know
these facts, the world knows them
and it knows still more. In autumn,
1898, a plenary session of the Elk
ecutiye Committee of the Commu-
mist International took place. At
this Thirteenth Plenary Session the
German Communist leader Will
helm PECK delivered a speech on
the situation in Germany. Twenty
Communists took part in the dis
cussion on the German question
The resolutions of the session dealt
in detail with the German situation
The speeches, the discussions and
the resolutions were published
throughout the world in score of
languages, as every reader of the
newspapers knows, and they all
point out that the Central Com
mittee of the German Communist
Party, under the leadership OF
Ernst Thaelmann, was correct when
it refused to let itself be provoked
by Goering into an armed insurrec-
ton.
Despite all these known facts the
German faScists have the impu-
dence to present a forged plan Of
revolution" to support the indict-
ment of Thaelmann.
Every thinking person is well
aware that this precious plan" is
product of the national socialist
forgery workshops, and that the
witnesses" for the prosecution are
corrupt and perjured wretches. Why
is that perfectly clear?
The main aim of the Dimitroy
process was not really to prove that
Dimitrov and Torgler had set fire
to the Reichstag. The whole in
dictment, the speeches of the Min
listers and the evidence of the po-
lice witnesses, were all directed tc
proving that in the spring of 1885
the Communist Party of Germany
had intended to launch an armed
rising and that the burning of the
Reichstag was to be the signal
for the revolt.
Both these contentious collapsed
utterably and miserably. The &C
cused Communists had to be ac-
quilted. A year after Hitler hao
come to power Dimitrov was re-
leased.
The sensational question now
arises. Why was the notorious
plan for armed instruction" moi
produced in the Dlmitrov process?
Why were not the witnesses whom
the national socialists now claim
to have in support of its "authen-
ticitvn not invited to give evidence
! in the Dim troy process?
We shall shout this question