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Place of Birth: Gerolstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Maria Reese
- Maria Reese (born Maria Meyer: 5 January 1889 – 9 October 1958) was a German teacher who became a writer and journalist.
- She was also politically active, and sat as a member of the national parliament (Reichstag) between 1928 and 1933.For most of her time in the Reichstag she was a Communist member.
- However, in 1933, after spending time in Moscow she became appalled by the careerist functionaries surrounding Stalin.
- (The dictator's potential rivals for power and influence had, in most cases, disappeared from the scene by this time.) She managed to escape from the Soviet Union and pursued a complicated political trajectory which included a period working for the Nazi government in the Anti-Comintern department of the Propaganda Ministry. Her son was shot for suspected desertion in 1944, but a few months later she received a letter from the military high court stating that this had resulted from an error.
- After 1945 she re-converted back to Roman Catholicism.
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