Table of Contents
Acknowledgments x
Prologue xii
Part 1 An anti-Nazi in Germany 1
Chapter 1 Introduction 2
Chapter 2 1904-1928 Early life. The makings of a revolutionary 10
Chapter 3 Bavaria: the early stamping ground of the Nazis. German Communist Party (KPD) resistance 15
Chapter 4 1928-1933 Political Background to the KPD 36
1918-1928 37
1928-1933 39
Deadly mis-estimation of National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) 47
Chapter 5 1928-1933 Resistance 60
1 May 1929 61
Rotfrontkämpferbund (BPF) 64
Cross-membership 74
Berlin Proletarische Freidenker (BPF) 78
The importance of left sporting organisations 83
Agitprop 89
Alles an der Roten Start 107
The India connection 117
Going underground in Berlin 122
Escape from Germany 132
Stay in Paris 139
Part 2 In exile in Britain 163
Chapter 6 1934-1938 The first years of exile 164
Introduction 164
Background 168
1934-1937 Siegi's political life: the KPD group in exile 174
1934-1938 Siegi's status as a refugee 190
Lotte, Brian, the USSR and Siegi 195
Chapter 7 1938-1947 Life at Oxford; 'A whole world separates me from the line' 215
Siegi at the Institute of Statistics 218
Lotte and the USA 224
The risk and reality of internment, 1940 226
Die Zeitung 231
Siegi's writings 1938-1947 234
The Holocaust and its shadow 238
Chapter 8 1947-1966 The Durham years. Drowning ghosts 250
Chapter 9 1966-1988 London. Beaten but not defeated 269
The Board of Trade and Harold Wilson 269
The betrayal of the 1919 German Revolution 273
The last years 276
Epilogue 284
Appendices
1 Five articles by Siegi Moos, on the role of revolutionary theatre, first published in 1930-31, in Arbeiterbühne und Film, edited by Weber. Translated by Ian Birchall 288
2 Researching the KPD 1929-1937. Conversations with three members of the KPD in the 1930s 311
3 Hermann Binnswanger 319
4 Brief biographies of some of the members of the committee of the illegal cell of the Proletarian Freethinkers 330
5 The divisions among the revolutionary left in Germany, 1929 333
6 The Weber/LaPorte debate about the Stalinization of the KPD 335
7 The Russian Oil Products (ROP) 337
8 The Workers' Olympics 342
9 Lotte Moos 345
Bibliography 357
