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in 1925–26, he went in 1926 as a functionary to the KPD district leadership in Hesse-Frankfurt. In
October 1928 he took over the leadership of the Hessen-Frankfurt district as political director. In 1929 he moved to Berlin and became a candidate for the Central Committee of the KPD, which sent him to
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that were being produced in underground galleries at the camp. In
December 1944 the Mittelbau-Dora guards began a round up of suspected saboteurs. Kuntz was interrogated and tortured; he died on the night of 22–23 January 1945 in his cell there; the cause of death was not announced.
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in Moscow. After a nine-month stay there, in 1930 he became organizational secretary of the Berlin-Brandenburg district leadership of the KPD. In April 1932 he was elected to the
Prussian state parliament. By 1933, Kuntz had risen to the position of Communist deputy in the
187:. At each of the concentration camps where he was held, he was used by the camp administration to organize construction activities. At Lichtenberg, he worked on the construction of heating and bathing systems. From 1937 to 1943, he was a prisoner of the
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in Berlin. From June 1932 until his arrest in 1933, he worked as the political secretary of the Hesse-Frankfurt party district.
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A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That
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A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That
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at the end of 1946. His name was frequently applied to buildings, streets and schools:
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to signify this status. While at Dora-Mittelbau, he organized a group to sabotage the
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Schule im Dritten Reich, Erziehung zum Tod: eine Dokumentation
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