Martin Monath by Nathaniel Flakin;

Author:Nathaniel Flakin;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)

Notes

Chapter 1

1. ‘Proletaires de tous les pays, unissez-vous! Proleten aller Laender, vereinigt euch!’ in La Verité (Paris), October 15, 1943, reprinted in Jean-Michel Brabant, ed., Fac-simile de ‘La Vérité’ clandestine: 1940-1944 (Paris: ÉDI, 1978), 139. Did this scene really take place as described? We will investigate that in Section 5.1.

2. Ibid. (our translation).

3. André Calvès talks about 27 soldiers in the organization. André Calvès, “La trahison de Conrad Leplow Octobre 1943,” manuscript in the BDIC in Paris, probably from 1944, http://andre-calves.org/autres%20redactions/La%20trahison%20de%20Conrad%20LEPLOW%20octobre%201943.htm. Yvan Craipeau speaks of 50 soldiers. Yvan Craipeau, Swimming Against the Tide: Trotskyists in German Occupied France (London: Merlin Press, 2012), 245.

4. André Calvès, Sans bottes ni médailles: Un trotskyste breton dans la guerre (Montreuil: Editions La Brèche, 1984), 75 (our translation).

5. Craipeau, Swimming, 245.

6. Christine Botzet (Federal Archive of Germany, Military Archive Department), e-mail message to author, November 29, 2016.

7. Clara and Paul Thalmann, Revolution für die Freiheit: Stationen eines politischen Kampfes Moskau / Madrid / Paris (Hamburg: Verlag Association, 1977), 316 (our translation).

8. Paul Ehrlich, Letter to Jakob Moneta, July 5, 1970, Rodolphe Prager papers, folder 301, IISG, Amsterdam (our translation).

9. Martin Monath, Letter to Karl Monath, undated, Rodolphe Prager papers, folder 301, IISG, Amsterdam (our translation). (Henceforth all letters from Martin Monath to his siblings will be numbered and quoted in the format “Monte, Letter 1.” All these letters are available in German at www.klassegegenklasse.org/arbeiterundsoldat/.)

10. Thalmann, Revolution, 338 (our translation).

11. Ehrlich, Letter (our translation).

12. Wolfgang Abendroth, Einführung in die Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung: Band I (Heilbronn: Distel, 1985), 187 (our translation). Three decades later, the young historian Ralf Hoffrogge was able to show that Müller, after ending his work in the KPD and later as a historian, became a realty speculator before dying in 1943. Ralf Hoffrogge, Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement (Leiden: Brill, 2014).

13. Rodolphe Prager, Interview with Ernest Mandel, November 12, 1977, Rodolphe Prager papers, folder 290, IISG, Amsterdam, quoted in Jan Willem Stutje, Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred (London: Verso, 2009), 25 (Stutje’s translation).

14. Thalmann, Revolution, 343 (our translation).

15. Stutje, Mandel, 25.

16. Marguerite Baget, “A Heroic Trotskyist Leader in the German Underground,” and George Breitman, “Why The Gestapo Tracked Him Down,” The Militant (New York), July 20, 1946. The Cahiers Leon Trotsky, the historical magazine edited by Pierre Broué, also referred to him this way in the 1990s. “Michael Pablo,” Cahiers Leon Trotsky, 57 (March 1996), 120.

17. Marguerite Baget, “Nous accusons les bourreaux de la S.P.A.C. d’avoir assassiné Marcel Widelin,” La Verité (Paris), January 6, 1946.

18. Wolfgang Alles, “Cyrano von Bergerac und die Geduld des Revolutionärs” (Interview with Rudolf Segall), Inprekorr (Cologne), 414/15 and 416/417 (May/June and July/August 2006).

19. Robert J. Alexander, International Trotskyism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991), 426. Matthew Cobb, The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis (London: Simon & Schuster, 2009) 210.

20. “File: Stolperstein Muskauer Str 24 (Kreuz) Martin Monath.jpg,” https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stolperstein_Muskauer_Str_24_(Kreuz)_Martin_Monath.jpg.

21. Neither in the local Registry Offices [Standesämter] nor in the central residents’ register [Einwohnermeldekartei].

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