A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany: The Life of Werner Scholem (1895-1940) by Ralf Hoffrogge

A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany: The Life of Werner Scholem (1895-1940)

Historical Materialism Book Series #141

Ralf Hoffrogge with Jan-Peter Herrmann (Translator), Loren Balhorn (Translator)

14 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

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Walter Benjamin derided Werner Scholem as a 'rogue' in 1924. Josef Stalin referred him as a 'splendid man', but soon backtracked and labeled him an 'imbecile', while Ernst Th lmann, chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), warned his foll...

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