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Erich Mühsam
German-Jewish anarchist writer
1878 – 1934aged 56
An anarchist poet and cabaret performer, Mühsam helped lead the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1918 and served five years in prison for it. Through the Weimar years he wrote satire condemning Nazism and mocking Hitler directly, well before 1933 made that dangerous; when the Nazis took power they had him arrested, and he was tortured and murdered at the Oranienburg concentration camp in 1934.