Word: weissberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DESPERATE MISSION (310 pp.)-Joel Brand's story, as told by Alex Weissberg-Criterion...
...bodies for surgical research, flourished a century or so ago. A true resurrectionist, who dealt in live bodies while practicing a trade in mercy on the bloody landscape of the Europe of the 19403, is a man named Joel Brand. He told his story to a German journalist, Alex Weissberg, who put it down baldly and brutally. Fine writing would be an offense against the appalling facts of this bitter memoir...
...searching or reflective but nearly good enough to set beside Witness was Austrian Physicist Alexander Weissberg's The Accused, one of the best accounts yet of what happened to victims of the Kremlin purge in 1937. And those who still doubted the Communists' double-dealing in the Spanish Civil War could read George (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, posthumously published in the U.S., one of the best books yet written about that tragic episode...
...Weissberg, an Austrian citizen, was handed over to the Gestapo in the Russo-Nazi exchange of political prisoners after the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. His later experience in Gestapo prisons (he now lives in Paris) forms no part of this book, which is one of the most searching, intelligent studies of its kind to date, replete with scores of prison case histories and exemplary samples of cool-headed observation. The key question in it (which has haunted Weissberg for years) is the great why? Why, he asks again & again, did Stalin decide to destroy not only a horde...
...Weissberg can only think that "Stalin wanted power-power without limit." Only by mass terrorization could he carry out his aim of turning the U.S.S.R. into a nation consisting of "160 million slaves and one free man." Possibly this is the correct answer; but it will hardly satisfy those who, unlike Author Weissberg, believe that this was precisely the state of the Union before the purge began...