Karl O. Paetel

A German publicist and journalist, this author is considered one of Germany's main proponents of "national Bolshevism." He began his journalistic career at the newspaper Deutsches Tageblatt and later worked for Ernst Jünger's magazine "Die kommenden." He was a member of the "Bündische Jugend" and later founded the "Socialrevolutionary Nationalists." In 1933, he was banned from writing, after which he went to Prague and later to Paris. In 1940, he fled France for Spain and then to America.