Summary
Martin Ludwig Monath (name later changed to Martin Witlin, and also known by pseudonyms such as Paul Widelin and Viktor) (5 January 1913 – August 1944) was a German Jewish Trotskyist resistance fighter.
Life edit
Monath was born in Berlin. His parents, Baruch (Bernhard) and Emilie Monath, had moved from Ternopil to Berlin in 1904.[1] In 1931, Monath joined the Socialist-Zionist youth organization Hashomer Hatzair and became a member of its national leadership in Germany.
Around 1940, he joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (Belgium) alongside Abraham Leon and Ernest Mandel.[2] In the summer of 1943, Monath became a member of the Provisional European Secretariat of the Fourth International, responsible for the "German work."[3]
In 1943 in Paris, alongside Paul and Clara Thalmann, he began publishing the newspaper Arbeiter und Soldat (Worker and Soldier) for German soldiers in France. In August 1944, Monath was arrested and murdered by the Gestapo.[4]
References edit
- ^ Flakin, Nathaniel (2019). Martin Monath: A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers. Pluto. p. 8.
- ^ Stutje, Jan Willem (2009). Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream Deferred. Verso. p. 25. ISBN 9781844673162.
- ^ Prager, Rodolphe. "The Fourth International during the Second World War". marxists.org. Revolutionary History. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Thalmann, Clara und Paul (1977). Revolution für die Freiheit: Stationen eines politischen Kampfes. Association. p. 334–43.
External links edit
- Arbeiter und Soldat at Marxists.org
- MartinMonath.org