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The last chapter of the book is, firstly, set in the context of the Arbeiterhilfe’s anti-war campaign work. Special emphasis is placed on how fear and anxiety were used and cultivated in order to strengthen the Arbeiterhilfe’s message of international solidarity. The focus here will be on the Arbeiterhilfe’s anti-war campaign work in the context of the 1927 war scare, the German Panzerkreuzer affair of 1928, and the fear of a new imperialist war, which culminated in the Arbeiterhilfe’s anti-war congress, organised in Amsterdam in 1932. How was this war scare articulated and how was it used to mobilise the German Left for both international solidarity and the defence of the Soviet Union? Here, the analysis of a new culture of fear is especially focused on the Arbeiterhilfe’s descriptions of the future total war and the role of gas warfare.
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Braskén, K. (2015). International Solidarity against War and Fascism, 1927–1933. In: The International Workers’ Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137546869_10
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