{"id":298,"date":"2021-06-15T07:31:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T07:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/?page_id=298"},"modified":"2021-06-15T07:35:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T07:35:01","slug":"hans-jahn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/?page_id=298","title":{"rendered":"Hans Jahn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Biography of an Anti-Nazi Trade Unionist<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nby<br \/>\nMerilyn Moos<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jahn.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-296\" src=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cover-700x1014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cover-700x1014.jpg 700w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cover-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cover-768x1113.jpg 768w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cover.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jahn.pdf\">Free download from here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most remarkable and almost unknown figures in the German resistance was the secretary of the railway union, Hans Jahn, who became a key figure in organising the anti-Nazi underground struggle amongst railway workers and can teach us a thing or two about how to organise an underground. A study of his life also demonstrates that at least a small number of left trade-union bureaucrats, faced with the Nazis&#8217; attempt to break working class organisations, organised at a rank and file level. Much later, he was to say that &#8220;<em>one of the greatest tragedies is that German unions did not fight to prevent Hitler taking power in 1933<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography of an Anti-Nazi Trade Unionist by Merilyn Moos Free download from here&#8230; One of the most remarkable and almost unknown figures in the German resistance was the secretary of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-298","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}