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Leopold Trepper (* 23 February 1904 in new market (Nowy Targ, Poland); " 28 December 1982 in Jerusalem) was a Polish communist, resistance fighter and a journalist of Jewish denomination.

Life

Leopold Trepper followed in the 20's in Palestine of the there illegal communist party, because it was the only party, in which Jews and Arabs was equal. Pursued by the British, he fled around 1930 to Moscow. There it studied, was afterwards an editor of a jiddischen newspaper. From the stalinistischen secret service NKWD it saved into the Soviet foreign secret service, went themselves 1940 to Brussels and organized there, as a Canadian businessman camouflaged, the espionage activities of the German group of resistances" red chapel ". One called it the" Grand boss ". Its people warned Stalin in vain in the spring 1941 of the forthcoming German invasion. His man in Tokyo, Richard concern, contributed in November 1941 to the rescue of Moscow, because he could announce that from Japan no invasion threatened. The eastSiberian troops set free thereby could be used straight still in time for the defense of Moscow against the German armed forces. 1942 announced the" red chapel "the forthcoming German Caucasus offensive, whereby the resistance could be organized into and around Stalingrad in time. 1943 arrested by the Nazis, could flee Trepper.

1945-53 it was eingekerkert under pretexts in Moscow, because Stalin had fear, it could details on the debacle from June 1941 report. rehabiliert, he went to 1954 with new name (Leiba to Poland back, there publisher for Jewish literature and director/conductor of the Jewish culture federation became. On the occasion of the six-day war 1967 party chief Wladyslaw Gomulka gave an anti-Semitic inflammatory speech. In the consequence also Trepper was arrested, forced however with a threatened hunger strike its departure to Israel. With its funeral Ariel Scharon attached a medal to its coffin.