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Werner Scholem

People · 1895–1940

Werner Scholem

German-Jewish communist deputy who paid for his politics with his life at Buchenwald.

Facts

Years
1895–1940
Category
People

Story

Werner Scholem was the political brother in a family that also produced a great scholar of mysticism. Journalism and party work took him into the Reichstag while the republic still breathed.

Buchenwald ended the argument. We record him without campaigning for his faction: a Jewish parliamentarian who would not recant, killed for remaining himself.

Werner Scholem
Wikimedia Commons

Hero photograph: Wikimedia Commons

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