Leonid Arkadyevich Chentov

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Leonid Arkadjewitsch Chentow ( pseudonyms: Semjon Rostowsky; Ernst Henry; A. Leonidow ) (* 1904 in Vitebsk ; † 1990 ) was a Soviet Marxist theorist, journalist and writer who warned that Hitler would attack Europe first and then the Soviet Union .

Life

He was the son of a wealthy businessman and had nine sisters. From 1917 worked as a courier for the Communist Youth International between Berlin and Moscow . In 1922 he took part in the founding congress of the Turkish Communist Party . After the Hamburg uprising he was arrested in Germany. In 1927 he collected material for two unpublished books: "The Concentration of Capital" and "The Dynamics of the New German Imperialism". After the fascists came to power , he fled to London , leaving behind his personal archive.

Under the pseudonym Ernst Henry, he warned of the appeasement policy in two popular books, "Hitler over Europe" and "Hitler over Russia" (German: "Feldzug gegen Moscow?"), And developed a possible scenario for a war with "nightmarish precision" a fascist coalition against the Soviet Union.

He was put on the special wanted list by the Nazis . After the Second World War he returned to the Soviet Union and continued to work as a writer.

Works in German

  • Ernst Henry: Campaign against Moscow? . Paris 1937.
  • A. Leonidow: The men behind the scenes. The international role of the Anglo-American-German Schröder Bank . Berlin 1947.
  • A. Leonidow: What are the plans for the division of Germany? . Berlin 1947.

literature

  • Lennart Samuelson: Tankograd . Basingstoke 2011, pp. 163-165.

Individual evidence

  1. Herbert Romerstein, Stan Levchenko: The KGB Against the, Main Enemy ' . Lexington Books 1989, p. 225.
  2. Samuelson, Tankograd, p. 163.