The Only Road for Germany

Of Trotsky's books on Germany, Ruth Fischer, one-time leader of the German Communist Party, writes: "The turning points in the history of the German Republic were grasped more clearly by Trostsky than by any other contemporary. That is true of his analysis for 1933 as well as 1923; his three pamphlets on the German Situation, written in Istanbul just before Hitler cam to power, represent a correct and succinct presentation of the German crisis of 1932, fully confirmed by Hitler's victory and its consequences."