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Olga Benario
Christopher Kopper
Olga Benario / Olga Benario
A Brief Life in the Service of the World Revolution
Jewish, communist, spy – an extraordinary life in an age of extremes
Olga Benario: a virtual unknown in West Germany, on the other side of the Wall, there were schools, kindergartens and streets named after her. Born into a Jewish family in Munich in 1908, she became involved with the Young Communist League in Berlin-Neukölln in the 1920s. In 1928, she fled to the Soviet Union and was trained as a Comintern agent, before being sent to Paris and London in the service of the party, and finally to Rio de Janeiro. After a failed uprising, Brazil extradited...
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Olga Benario: a virtual unknown in West Germany, on the other side of the Wall, there were schools, kindergartens and streets named after her. Born into a Jewish family in Munich in 1908, she became involved with the Young Communist League in Berlin-Neukölln in the 1920s. In 1928, she fled to the Soviet Union and was trained as a Comintern agent, before being sent to Paris and London in the
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Olga Benário Prestes
German Brazilian Communist militant
Olga Benário Prestes (Brazilian Portuguese: /ˈɔwgɐ beˈnaɾju prɛstʃis/, 12 February 1908 – 7 April 1942)[1] was a German-Brazilian communistmilitant executed by Nazi Germany.
Biography
Olga Gutmann Benário was born in Munich to a Jewish family.[2] Her father, Leo Benário, was a Social Democrat lawyer, and her mother, Eugenie (Gutmann), was a member of Bavarian high-society. In 1923, aged fifteen, she joined the Communist Youth International and in 1928 helped organize her lover and fellow party member Otto Braun's escape from Moabit prison.[3] She went to Czechoslovakia and from there, reunited with Braun, to Moscow, where Benário attended the Lenin-School of the Comintern and then worked as an instructor of the Communist Youth International, in the Soviet Union and in France and Great Britain, where she participated in coordinating anti-fascist activities. She parted from Otto Braun in 1931.
After her stay in Britain, where she was briefly arrested,[4] Olga a
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OUT OF PRINT
Price £14.95
Format Hardback
Published 1990
Length 246 pages
ISBN 9781870015325
Olga
Fernando Morais
Olga is the story of Olga Benario, German Jew and Communist activist, trained by the Red Guard, who married the charismatic leader of the Brazilian Communist Party and who, after a failed uprising in Rio, was arrested and deported to Nazi Germany as a ‘gift’ to Hitler. But more than a biography it is a love story with a tragic, historical sweep and a tale of unflinching political commitment.
The book opens in the middle of Olga’s first major political action in 1928, with Olga and five other liberating Otto Braun, her lover, from a Berlin prison. Afterwards, she is forced to flee to Moscow where she is celebrated as an exemplary Communist Youth and remains for several years to study everything from political theory to sky-diving.
Olga’s first mission for Comintern is to provide for the personal security and safe passage back to Brazil of Luís Carlos Prestes, the legendary leader of the remarkable “Pres
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