Эрнст Тельман знаменитые цитаты
„Один палец легко сломать, но пять пальцев — это кулак!“
Einen Finger kann man brechen, aber fünf Finger sind eine Faust!
„Если я скажу, что вижу смысл жизни в борьбе за дело рабочего класса, то вы вряд ли поймете меня…“
Источник: Цит. по кн.: Е. И. Парнов. Секретный узник.
Эрнст Тельман цитаты
Эрнст Тельман: Цитаты на английском языке
“Translated After Hitler, our turn.”
Nach Hitler kommen Wir.
Ernst Thälmann (1931), cited in: Michelle Goldberg. " After Trump, Our Turn! http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/03/29/susan_sarandon_is_perfect_spokeswoman_for_neverhillary.html" at slate.com, March 29, 2016.
Quote is about Thälmann's refusal to oppose the Nazis in the 1932 German election helped bring them to power. It was quoted by Goldberg (2016) as historical precedent for leftists refusing to oppose Donald Trump as US President.
The English quote is mentioned in over 30 publications, mostly as a communist slogan around 1930, yet only 4 publications actually attributed the quote to Ernst Thälmann. The original quote is mentioned in numerous publications.
Disputed
Ernst Thälmann in address to the KPD Party on the October Conference, 1932; as cited in: Wilhelm Pieck. " Ernst Thaelmann, Fifty Years Old https://www.marxists.org/archive/pieck/1936/07/thaelmann.htm," The Communist Review, Vol. 3, No. 7, July 1936, pp. 12-17.