Complex sentence: He married a Catholic working-class woman, Sibylle Pesch, in defiance of bourgeois values; in socialist literature the idea was propagated that she was a prostitute'redeemed' by Hess, but that notion has been refuted by Hess' biographer Silberner.
Split into simpler sentences: He married a Catholic working-class woman, Sibylle Pesch, in defiance of bourgeois values. In socialist literature the idea was propagated that she was a prostitute'redeemed' by Hess, but that notion has been refuted by Hess' biographer Silberner.