with the beginning of the war, they took the name revolutionary communists of germany (rkd) and came to define russia as state capitalist in agreement with ante ciliga's book "the russian enigma". at this point, they adopted a revolutionary defeatist position on the war and condemned trotskyism for its critical defence of russia (which was seen by trotskyists as a degenerated workers' state). after the fall of france, they renewed contact with militants in the trotskyist milieu in southern france and recruited some of them into the communistes revolutionnaires in 1942. this group became known as "fraternisation proletarienne" in 1943 and then l'organisation communiste revolutionnaire in 1944. the cr and rkd were autonomous and clandestine, but worked closely together with shared politics. as the war ran its course, they evolved in a councilist direction while also identifying more and more with luxemburg's work. they also worked with the french fraction of the communist left and seem to have disintegrated at the end of the war. this disintegration was sped no doubt by the capture of leading militant karl fischer, who was sent to the buchenwald concentration camp where he was to participate in writing the "declaration of the internationalist communists of buchenwald" when the camp was liberated.