Were there many Esperanto speakers in Germany during WWII?

Question

I read that Hitler, apart from everything else, detested Esperanto speakers, and other 'internationalists'.

Answer 1

"Stalin called Esperanto "the language of spies" and "a dangerous language."
Apparently, of the first 1000 families to learn Esperanto, something like 900 were murdered by either Hitler or Stalin.
A fellow named Ulrich Lins wrote a book on the subject, La Dangxera Lingvo (The Dangerous Language).
Solzhenitsyn mentions that in March, 1938, the government of the USSR arrested every member of the Soviet Esperantist Union they could pick up, shot some 3000 of them, and sent the rest off to Siberia for extended vacations.
Generally speaking, though, Esperanto did well under later Communist regimes of the more moderate sort, just as it does well in China today."

I wonder if there is a list of the names of these victims somewhere. I think their sacrifice should be acknowledged by the Esperanto movement worldwide.

Just my "du steloj"

Answer 2

Openly, there would not have been any Esperanto speakers in Germany during WW2. Hitler had attacked the language as early as 1922, in a speech in Munich, and later, in Mein Kampf, he spoke of Esperanto as part of the Jewish conspiracy to enslave the Aryan races of the world. His acquisition of dictatorial power from 1933 gave him a chance to do something about it. In 1936 the German Ministry of Education banned the teaching of Esperanto. The German Esperanto Association, in the face of competition from another national Esperanto organization established by the Gestapo, expelled its Jewish members, a step which led to a corresponding significant reduction among outraged Aryan members, who remembered that the creator of Esperanto had been a Jew. By the end of 1936, all Esperanto activity in Germany was banned.

After WW2, Esperanto activity in Germany started up again, and a new German Esperanto Institute was founded in January 1948.

Answer 3

They worked jointly especially sharing technologies, yet Japan wasn't openly below Germany's administration. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. the U. S. declared conflict on Japan. Then, Germany declared conflict on the U. S., and the U. S. declared conflict on Germany.