Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler With an introd
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From 1921 to 1932, writes Margarete Buber-Neumann, I was a loyal member of the Communist Party of Germany. In 1931 I was sent to Moscow as a delegate of my fellow employees at the big Berlin department store, Tietz. I witnessed the May Day parade on the Red Square; I marvelled at the modern factories and children s homes I was shown, and I listened enthusiastically to the wonderful figures of the Five Year Plan. Naturally, I did not fail to notice that the people on the streets were poorly clad, or that begging children lay in wait around the bakers, or that the comforts of life were obviously absent. But did that matter? orn in 1901 in Potsdam Margarete Buber joined the German youth movement Wandervogel at age fourteen.As her adolescent ideals matured, she later joined the Communist Youth Organization and then, the Communist Party where she worked at the International Communist Press Office in Berlin and met her second husband, Heinz Neumann, who, among other things, was editor-in-chief of the Red Flag newspaper. n 1930, Neumann stated his abhorrence to the National Socialists and left Germany, with Margarete. They travelled first to Spain, where Neumann was declared left
Author: Margarete Buber-Neumann
Format: Hardback, 384 pages, 156mm x 241mm, 638 g
Published: 2008, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Regional History
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From 1921 to 1932, writes Margarete Buber-Neumann, I was a loyal member of the Communist Party of Germany. In 1931 I was sent to Moscow as a delegate of my fellow employees at the big Berlin department store, Tietz. I witnessed the May Day parade on the Red Square; I marvelled at the modern factories and children s homes I was shown, and I listened enthusiastically to the wonderful figures of the Five Year Plan. Naturally, I did not fail to notice that the people on the streets were poorly clad, or that begging children lay in wait around the bakers, or that the comforts of life were obviously absent. But did that matter? orn in 1901 in Potsdam Margarete Buber joined the German youth movement Wandervogel at age fourteen.As her adolescent ideals matured, she later joined the Communist Youth Organization and then, the Communist Party where she worked at the International Communist Press Office in Berlin and met her second husband, Heinz Neumann, who, among other things, was editor-in-chief of the Red Flag newspaper. n 1930, Neumann stated his abhorrence to the National Socialists and left Germany, with Margarete. They travelled first to Spain, where Neumann was declared left
Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler With an introd