The death of the KPD communism and anti-communism in West Germany, 1945-1956

Why was the West German Communist Party banned in 1956, only 11 years after it emerged from Nazi persecution? This book uses material from Communist archives in the former GDR and Western intelligence, to trace the final decline and fall of the once-powerful KPD.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Major, Patrick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1997, 1997
Series:Oxford historical monographs / Oxford historical monographs
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:Why was the West German Communist Party banned in 1956, only 11 years after it emerged from Nazi persecution? This book uses material from Communist archives in the former GDR and Western intelligence, to trace the final decline and fall of the once-powerful KPD.
Physical Description:xiv, 335 p.
ISBN:9780191677397