Tagebuch der Hölle - Buch

Diary of Hell tells the autobiographical story of the Comintern (1919-1943), the Soviet-dominated successor organisation to the First International, and is one of the greatest writings of a lost generation of European revolutionaries. Jan Valtin became interested in politics at a young age and took an active part in the Hamburg uprising in 1923. He then travelled the world's oceans as an agitating sailor and underwent cadre training in Leningrad in 1925. As an agent of the Comintern, he coordinated sailors' and seamen's trade unions worldwide. In those days, before the invention of air transport and the internet, this was a key factor in the transport of news, propaganda, weapons and people. He took on assignments to discipline renegade party groups and other enemies of the Soviet Union and spent three years in prison in the USA for attempted murder. But when he returns to Germany in the early 1930s, the fuss really starts. An extremely gripping and revealing contemporary document about the unscrupulousness and incompetence of the Comintern, which was downgraded to the foreign secret service of the young USSR. A book about the rise and retention of power by the NSDAP and the inability of the entire German left to do anything about it. A heartbreaking epic that shows where the surrender of political responsibility and independence to a central party authority can lead and thus an anti-authoritarian book in the best sense of the word.