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Resistance of the First Hour II
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Humiliation and torment were part of daily life for the persecuted
persons and opponents of the regime who were arrested or abducted as
resistance fighters by the SA (/Sturmabteilung/) or SS (/Schutzstaffel/)
in 1933. Individuals like the Center Party's social policy expert
Heinrich Hirtsiefer shared this fate with Communists and Social
Democrats, who were sent to the Oranienburg concentration camp.
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Concentration camp.
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The Oranienburg and Dachau concentration camps had been part of the
persecution and terror since as early as March 1933. Yet another aspect
of National Socialist policy also became apparent as the party launched
its highly publicized "labor battle." This propaganda campaign
highlighted the "Reich autobahn," a project that had been planned long
before the National Socialists' rise to power. In a particularly
striking photograph, workers raise one hand in the National Socialist
salute while making a fist in their pocket with the other.
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Solidarity.
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