Willi Seng
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Willi Seng (11 February 1909 – 27 July 1944) was a German communist activist who became a resistance fighter during the Nazi period. He was captured in 1943 and faced trial in 1944, following which he was convicted and two months later executed.
Biography
Willi Seng was born in Berlin. He became a member of a workers' sports club called "Fichte" in 1920 and in 1929 travelled to Moscow in order to take part in the Soviet sponsored Spartakiad sports festival. In 1930 he became a member of Rote Hilfe ("Red Aid"), a workers' welfare organisation widely (and correctly) believed to have close connections with the Communist Party and with Moscow. In 1932 he joined the Communist Party itself. In January 1933 a new government took power and lost no time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship. The authorities were diligent in their persecution of political opponents, and in particular of communists, many of whom fled abroad. Others were arrested. Willi Senf was arrested the early part of 1933 and detained at the newly established Oranienburg concentration camp.
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