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Author Green, John

Title A Political Family : the Kuczynskis, Fascism, Espionage and The Cold War
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (370 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
Routledge studies in radical history and politics
Contents Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: who are the Kuczynskis?; Notes; 2. Robert René, world pioneer of social statistics (1876-1933); The 'golden' twenties; The rise of the Nazis; Notes; 3. Jürgen follows in his father's footsteps (1904-1929); Notes; 4. Ursula: the politically precocious child (1907-1935); Notes; 5. Life under fascism (1929-1933); Notes; 6. Working underground (1933-1936); 7. The exile years: England (1936-1945); The enigma of the Lawn Road Flats -- a hub for spies?
The Red Orchestra in Switzerland (1938-1940)An unlikely love match; The role of agent 'Dora'; Notes; 8. Ursula: a Soviet agent in the Oxfordshire countryside; The Klaus Fuchs case; The course of the war changes (1942-1944); Notes; 9. Jürgen joins the US Army; End of the war and uncertainty (1945-1956); Notes; 10. Back in Germany at last; The creation of the German Democratic Republic (1945-1949); Notes; 11. Ursula's return to the German Democratic Republic (1950); Ernst: a ghost from the past; Note; 12. Life for Jürgen and Marguerite in the GDR; Notes; 13. Ursula reveals her past
What happened to Rudolf?Notes; 14. The sun sets on a dream: the end of the GDR; Notes; 15. The British Kuczynskis; Renate; Sabine; Barbara; Brigitte/Bridget; Notes; 16. Children of the war; Note; 17. The spying business and the role of MI5; Notes; 18. Epilogue; Note; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Kuczynski family.
SUBJECT Kuczynski family fast (OCoLC)fst01770154
Subject Jewish families -- Germany -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany
Jewish families
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315304410
1315304414