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Beaten But Not Defeated: Siegfried Moos - A German Anti-Nazi who Settled in Britain Kindle Edition

by Merilyn Moos (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Siegi Moos, an anti-Nazi and active member of the German Communist Party, escaped Germany in 1933 and, exiled in Britain, sought another route to the transformation of capitalism. This biography charts Siegi’s life, starting in Germany when he witnessed the Bavarian uprisings of 1918/19 and moving to the later rise of the extreme right. We follow his progress in Berlin as a committed Communist and an active anti-Nazi in the well-organised Red Front, before much of the German Communist party (KPD) took the Nazis seriously, and his deep involvement in the Free Thinkers and in agit-prop theatre. The book also describes Siegi’s life as an exile: the loss of family, comrades, his first language and ultimately his earlier political beliefs. Against a background of the loneliness of exile, the political and the personal became indissolubly intertwined when Siegi’s wife, Lotte, had a relationship with an Irish/Soviet spy. Lastly, we look into Siegi’s time as a research worker at the prestigious Oxford Institute of Statistics at Oxford University from 1938, becoming an economic advisor under the Labour Prime Minister, Wilson, 1966-1970, and how, finally, after retirement, he returned to writing.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00OJNQFF8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronos Books (October 31, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3720 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 381 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1782796770
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    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

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Tessa
4.0 out of 5 stars Politics and personality
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2017
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Merilyn Moos's biography of her father is both a tribute to the Communist and anti-Nazi activism and a meditation on what might have led him to turn away from organized political activity after the new Nazi regime forced him to flee his native Germany and settle in England. Although the senior Moos remained committed to his core beliefs, he seems to have eschewed political organizations and leadership roles. The interplay between politics, historical context, and personality is a fascinating subject, and the horrors and difficulties Moos and his wife faced--and perhaps the guilt they felt--must have played a part. Merilyn Moos takes a charitable view of her father's trajectory, as she struggles to understand the aspects of her father she never knew when she was growing up.
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S. Simpson
5.0 out of 5 stars A useful interweaving of personal and political
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2017
Beaten but not defeated is a meticulously researched biography tracing the political activity and development of Siegfried Moos, particularly when a communist writer and activist in Germany's late 1920s and early 1930s. He was active and prominent enough to need to leave home as soon as the Nazis came to power in 1933. The book uncovers a fascinating detailed background and personal details of political life in Germany in those years, and is recommended on that basis alone. Merilyn Moos manages to weave a personal story that is intimately tied to the political story of the times. The risks that Moos took to stand up against the Nazis defined his life as so many others of his generation. Deciding that he had to leave Germany, in London he becomes responsible for the small group of communist exiles in the early 1930s. It seems to be a time of isolation and disorientation, coinciding with a rocky period for his marriage (that was patched up and survived many more decades), with no details emerging of political activity at that time. When more communist exiles arrived in 1936, Moos left the communist party and remained outside political structures, though remaining personally committed through writing, through the Workers Educational Association and other activities. The book's strength is its interweaving of the personal and political. Its weakness is maybe that the father Moos' disenchantment with the communist movement drives the daughter Moos' writing of the historical context, so the book has many instances of blaming communists for the course of both personal and world history, without a discussion of the evidence that would make the claims more interesting.
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