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Drink & Women. Back in Germany, Wollweber became boss of the Comintern's maritime division and organizer of the worldwide courier system on which the Comintern depended for its life. As a respectable front-and a means of getting immunity from arrest-he got himself elected to various parliamentary bodies, where he won a reputation as a dull orator and, socially, a bore who told long stories of his exploits with drink and women...
Wollweber graduated in the '30s to chief of the Comintern's western operations. Out of Copenhagen (where he operated from the same office building used by the Gestapo) he spun a web of sabotage. During the Spanish Civil War, his men concentrated on ships carrying supplies to Franco, sabotaged 21 German, Italian and Spanish ships. During World War II, his apparatus turned to Nazi installations in Norway and to materials that the Swedes were selling to the Germans. Under German pressure, the Swedes , arrested Wollweber one day in 1941 and prepared to hand him over. But he casually...
...Author Sperber's little band of dedicated, wrong-headed men are broken on the Comintern's rack, discover too late that they have been pawns in a game that has nothing in common with dewy-eyed dreams of Marxist brotherhood...
...Author Buber gives no details of Heinz Neumann's role in the German Communist party (and in the Comintern) before his fall from grace. Other ex-Communists, writing books of their own, have told more. In Out of the Night (1941), the late Jan Valtin described him as "the ruthless Heinz Neumann," chief of the anti-Nazi division of the German Communist party, who once, in ordering a strong-arm demonstration, told Valtin: "Ich will Leichen sehen" (I want to see corpses...
...Chiang slowly moved toward Mao's hideout, Stalin moved to Mao's rescue. The new Comintern slogan was "united front" against the mounting fascist threat of Japan. It was successful. Chiang's campaign against the Communists was deflected and dissipated into resistance against a more powerful aggressor. The Chinese Red army was saved. It proceeded to expand spectacularly. During the eight years of the Japanese war, following Mao's directive "90% against the Kuomintang, 10% against the Japanese," it grew from 25,000 to 910,000 men, claimed control of 50 million people...