Margarete Buber Neumann
- Category : 1901-births
- Type : GP
- Profile : 2/4 - Hermit / Opportunist
- Definition : Split - Small (8,20)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Laws 3
Biography
German political writer & journalist.
She was a member of the Communist Party of Germany during the years of the Weimar Republic. She survived imprisonment in concentration camps during World War II in both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. After the war, she wrote a memoir of her time in both of these camps and served as a star witness during the so-called "trial of the century" in the Kravchenko Affair in France.
In 1976, she published Die erloschene Flamme: Schicksale meiner Zeit ("The Extinct Flame: Fates of My Time"), in which she argued that Nazism and Communism were in practice the same. By this time, she had become a political conservative, joining the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1975.
In 1980, Buber-Neumann was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
She died 6 November 1989.