Author: Simon, O.K. [pseudonym of Otto Katz (1893- 1952)]
Title: Hitler en Espagne : avec 16 documents hors-texte
Description: Paris, Éditions Denoël, (1938). orig. wrappers. 19x12cm, 265,(16)pages, Préface d'Émile Buré. Includes 16 facsimile plates.. Partially unopened. Minor wear. Some browning to spine. Good. ¶ ["Otto Katz, also known as André Simone amongst other aliases, was born in Jistebnice south of Prague, Bohemia, on May 27, 1895. He was hanged on December 3, 1952, after he was convicted in the Slánský trial. He was one of the most influential agents of the Soviet Union under Stalin in Western intellectual and artistic circles during the 1930s and 1940s. Known for his many pseudonyms, his seductiveness, his cynicism and versatility, from Paris to Hollywood from Mexico City to London, he participated in all the major Comintern disinformation campaigns in the 1930s, under the leadership of Willi Münzenberg who he eventually usurped after spying on him for the NKVD, if the rumours were to be believed. He became an international spy unconditionally faithful to Stalin, and unlike some of the communist Jewish intellectuals who ran the Comintern at the time, he accepted the German-Soviet Pact and was entrusted with the implementation of secret policies by Stalin's politburo. He was strongly suspected, without conclusive evidence, of involvement as Ramon Mercader's handler in the assassination of Leon Trotsky, and in the supposed murder of Willi Mü nzenberg who was found hanged in a French forest. Various purges, liquidations and murders required by Stalin during the Spanish Civil War are also attributed to him. He was tried under the name André Simone during in the Slánský trial, convicted and eventually hanged in the Ruzyne prison at 3am on December 3, 1952. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered beside a small road near Prague" - wikipedia].

Keywords: Spain, Spanish Civil War, Nazi Germany, Political History, Anti-Facsist, Anti-Nazi, , ,