Come
to a book launch of ‘Beaten But Not Defeated’ by Merilyn Moos on Friday 14th November 2014 at
Bookmarks at 6.30.
This
biography charts Siegi Moos’s life, starting in Germany when he witnessed the
Bavarian uprisings of 1918/19 and the later rise of the extreme right. The book
then follows Siegi’s progress in Berlin between 1929-1933 as a committed
Communist and an active anti-Nazi in the well-organised Red Front, before much
of the German Communist party (KPD) took the Nazis seriously, and his deep
involvement in the Free Thinkers and in agit-prop theatre.
Siegi escaped Germany in 1933
and, exiled in Britain, left the Communist Party in around 1937 and for the
rest of his life, sought another route to the transformation of capitalism.The
book describes Siegi’s life as an exile: the loss of family, comrades, his
first language and the impact of exile on his personal relationships.
This is a fascinating
and often moving account of the life of Siegfried Moos, a German Communist and
workers’ theatre activist in the years before Hitler came to power, and later
exiled in Britain; it casts valuable new light on the advent of Nazism and the
opposition to it. Ian Birchall, London Socialist Historians Group,
author of ‘Sartre Against Stalinism’
Bookmarks1 Bloomsbury Street, London
WC1B 3QE
0207 637 1848
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