ABSTRACT
The pattern by which the German party was to be re-formed was decided on in two special organizational conferences in Moscow, held in March 1925 and February 1926. The central German figure at these two conferences was Walther Ulbricht. There were hundreds of German party members who became paid employees of the various Soviet agencies in Germany. A job with one of these was a haven, eagerly sought by many German Communists. Rank-and-file members were encouraged to study ten assorted platforms with no practical differences on German questions. Of the innumerable problems of the International, Joseph Stalin chose Germany as his special province. By conspiratorial methods, Stalin’s agents organized from the top down and reduced the local bodies to easily manipulated units. Stalin and Manuilsky were right in recognizing in the general Communist assemblies a fertile ground for prolonged resistance to the policy of the Kremlin. The German Communist Party could be Bolshevized only through this smashing and regrouping.
