The death of the KPD
Subtitle: communism and anti-communism in West Germany, 1945-1956
By: Patrick Major.
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; )xf0rd; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands -- History.; Communism -- Germany (West) -- History.; Germany (West) -- Politics and government.
Description: Why was the West German Communist Party banned in 1956, only 11 years after it emerged from Nazi persecution? This book uses material from Communist archives in the former GDR and western intelligence, to trace the final decline and fall of the once-powerful KPD.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-332) and index.