The political odyssey of Herbert Wehner

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In this perceptive biography, Wayne Thompson brings to life six decades of German history by tracing the political career of Herbert Wehner, one of Germany's most active and influential politicians, from the 1920s until his death in early 1990. Wehner entered the political arena in the 1920s as an anarchist and Communist firebrand determined to destroy the Weimar Republic. During the 1930s, he was a key leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and served as the Comintern's chief analyst for German affairs in Moscow during Stalin's purges