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Spanish Sky Spreads Its Stars: The Story of the Thalmann Battalion and the First Germans in Armed Struggle Against Fascism
Ewald P Schulz, International Brigade Commemoration Committee, £6
MORE than 4,000 Germans fought in the International Brigades or in the anti-fascist militias and other Spanish military units during the Spanish civil war. Over 1,000 of them gave their lives.
Their story is recounted in this booklet by Ewald P Schulz, a Berlin-based lawyer and journalist who is active in the KFSR, the International Brigade Memorial Trust’s (IBMT) sister organisation in Germany.
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