The Wrestler Who Took on Nazi Germany By Ingar Solty, 25 October 2019 Seventy-five years after the Nazis murdered him, we celebrate the life of German anti-fascist athlete and communist resistance fighter Werner Seelenbinder. People carrying wreaths in memory of the dead at a mass anti-fascist rally in Berlin's Werner-Seelenbinder Stadium, September 1945. Fred Ramage / Keystone / Getty