ABSTRACT
The significance of Hitler's triumph was at first lost on the communist leaders in Moscow and their German subordinates. Neither Comintern nor K.P.D, would admit that the German working class had suffered a disaster. Communist policy changed only after the policy of the Soviet government had changed. It had been a dogma in Moscow that the only kind of German government it need fear was one friendly to the Versailles victors. The new course in Soviet foreign policy required a new ' line' for the Comintern. The Popular Front policy brought the communists, whose prestige and influence had reached a low ebb by 1933, great popularity among the more or less non-political masses in many European and even Asiatic countries. The Comintern's new slogans expressed the genuine feelings of millions of workers, intellectuals and peasants in countries misruled by dictatorial cliques or menaced by German, Italian or Japanese aggression.
