Walter Bartel [SEP] place of birth
Walter Bartel
Walter Bartel (15 September 1904, in Fürstenberg/Havel – 16 January 1992, in Berlin) was a German communist resistance fighter, historian and university professor.
Life.
Bartel grew up in a working-class family. Wilhelm Bartel, his father, worked in Forestry.
Walter Bartel trained to be a merchant after attending Volksschule and Realschule. He joined the Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD) in 1920 (the same year it was created) and joined the Communist Party of Germany
the concentration camp, but still exists today.
With the arrival of political prisoners from the various countries under Nazi occupation, the German political prisoners found contacts with members of the respective national organizations. The International Camp Committee (ICC) was organized under the leadership of the German Communist, Walter Bartel and it became the conspiratorial center of political anti-Nazi resistance at the camp in July 1943. The founding and meeting place of the ICC was a screened room in the infirmary.
Under its leadership, an International Military