Das mexikanische Exil

Shattered Dreams of Anti-Fascist Unity: German Speaking Exiles in Mexico, Argentina and Bolivia, 1937–1945

“…It received many messages of support from literary celebrities (Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger) as well as from across the left-wing political spectrum, including telegrams from German exiles in the Soviet Union and the United States. 37 It was inaugurated under the honorary presidency of Uruguay's chief of state, Alfredo Baldomir, alongside Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, while tributes were paid at the tomb of José Gervasio Artigas, one of the heroes of the emancipation of South America from Spanish rule. The most relevant outcome of the congress was the publication of a 'Political Manifesto of the German Anti-Fascists of South America', which contained a detailed description of those measures necessary to establish a socialist Germany after the war.…”

“…However, the success of the BFD congress was moderate in comparison to that of Montevideo, as it had failed to win the sympathy of the German-Jewish communities and was only acknowledged politely but distantly by both the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. 56 Nevertheless, in June 1943 the construction of LAK took its final shape when Olden took up a post on its honorary committee, thus cementing the schism within the Argentinian -and Latin American -German left. BFD had won its race against DAD but, despite all the rhetoric of unity, the Einheitsfront remained very much a dream.…”