SV: [ejlist] Three questions on Germanic affairs

["Bertil Häggman" <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

>1. Zersetzungsdienst--a German intelligence unit operating in the 1920's
>before the failed 1923 revolution.  Was it the Communist intelligence
>service, or the state?  And do you translate it into English as
>"Sedition Service"?


Dear Gary,

This sounds like Weimar police. Never heard of
it in Communist connection. Zersetzung means
disintegration, but sounds like it ought to be translated
"subversion". This could of course point toward it being
a communist service. Maybe the Red Republic in Munich.
Will mail a recommended address for further info.

>2. There was a street in Vienna where the tiny Austrian Communist Party
>held a demonstration in 1919 in support of the shortlived Hungarian
>Soviet Republic.  My source reads "Zähringstrasse."  Is that correct,
>and does it mean anything?  The demonstrators were shot down, but
>Krivitsky, the hero of my book, escaped.


Zaehring Street. Do you want a confirmation if this
street existed in Vienna at the time, or what? The Austrian
Communist Party actually staged a revolt in Vienna on
June 5, 1919, but owing the complete lack of preparation
and support it collapsed omn the second day. On June 30,
in spite of the failure, communists tried to declare a
soviet republic, but were stopped by social democratic
delegates to the All-Austrian Conference on Workers Councils.

>3. In 1934 there was a Paris-based Committee for Freedom in Germany,
>headed by Heinrich Mann.  Does anyone know anything about it?  My source
>says that Walter Krivitsky, the Soviet spymaster and subject of my book,
>recruited the group.

Never heard of it. Why don't you try a biography on Heinrich Mann.

Juengerianly

Bertil Haeggman