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which claims that its revolution is both national and socialist. (...) Even if the trade unions have to give up many things that represented their historical nature, they do not need to change their motto 'Through socialism to the nation' if the national revolution follows its will for socialism with socialist deeds.
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The national organization of labor, which they have built up in decades of hard struggle and immense effort, supported by the trust and sacrifice of the German workers, is a national value which the allied forces of the national revolution must also respect and guard, especially the great movement
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We are socialists because we are
Germans. And precisely for this reason the goal for us is not socialism, but socialist Germany. (...) German socialism grows from German history into the future living space of the German people. Socialist Germany will never become a reality without the
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Before he could establish himself in this sector, the First World War broke out. Erdmann volunteered and was deployed on the
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assumes, was in essence agreed with
Leipart. In this article, Erdmann distanced himself from the SPD in a hitherto unknown sharpness and emphasized the difference in character with the trade unions. According to Erdmann, the
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and the inability of the SPD to transform itself into a national party. He ended his contribution with an appeal to the
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Versöhnung von Nation und
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affected him deeply and led to a change in his attitude toward war. A severe nervous breakdown in 1916 put an end to the front assignment. Instead, he was detached to the
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for the support of the trade unions. Erdmann, who was also active as a speech writer for
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The goal of ensuring the survival of the trade unions by largely adapting to the regime was not successful. When the trade-union headquarters were occupied on the
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postal authority issued a stamp series of portraits of anti-fascists murdered in a concentration camp. The 5 pfennig stamp shows the portrait of
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after his father had been appointed to the university. Later he studied history and philosophy. He was a student of
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