Spare, high-domed Alfred Kantorowicz was one of East Germany's leading intellectuals, onetime intimate of Heinrich Mann, Romain Rolland and Ernest Hemingway, the founder of a guild of anti-Nazi writers in exile, the author himself of half a dozen books, including a lively portrait of the 21-nation battalion he commanded in the Spanish Civil War.
A Communist for 26 of his 58 years, he fled before Hitler's conquering armies to safety in the U.S., returned to East Germany after World War II. as did his Communist friends Gerhart and Hanns Eisler,* to revile...
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