What was the fate of communists in Nazi Germany?

Answer 1

Germany was a civilian run Dictatorship. Civil liberties for the masses were non existent.

The press and radio were censored and otherwise controlled. Free speech was not allowed. Of course, Jews (and Jehova's witnesses) were not allowed to practice their religion, although otherwise, religious freedom was allowed. Freedom from random searches, freedom of assembly, and other American civil liberties were also denied.

This said, compared to the Soviet Union, Germany was a model of civil liberties. At least the rule of law applied to most citizens in Germany. There were honest trials for criminal matters. Private property was in the vast majority of cases, protected.

In the USSR even these few rights were stripped from society. All property right down to the smallest garden plot was state owned. Every cow, every auto, every apartment - all state owned. Religion was suppressed with churches bulldozed, priests arrested and services broken up. Persons were arrested and sent to work camps for no reason other than to terrorize those left behind. The brutality of the Soviet military is well known and does not need repeating here.

Answer 2

1. The Communists in Germany were the first target when the Nazis came to power in 1933. The Party was banned, and many Communist Party officials and elected representatives were rounded up, savagely beaten in temporary concentration camps run by the Stormtroopers (SA), and from 22 March 1933 on were sent to 'regular' concentration camps. Many were killed. 2. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they murdered Communists on a vast scale. 3. Soviet prisoners of war were treated abominably by the Nazis. 4. A key theme of Nazi antisemitism - some would say the leading motive - was the claim that Communism was "Jewish". Again and again, the Nazis stressed that Marx and Trotsky were of Jewish heritage.