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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: German defectors to the Soviet Union, Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union, Wolf Messing, Walter Ulbricht, Emanuel Lasker, Heinrich Rau, Erich Mielke, Richard Sorge, Fritz Houtermans, Erwin Piscator, Wolfgang Leonhard, Clara Zetkin, Heinz Hoffmann, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Markus Wolf, Johannes R. Becher, Yisrael Mendel Kaplan, Ernst Wollweber, Peter Florin, Gustav von Wangenheim, Wilhelm Pieck, Ernst Busch, Rudolf Herrnstadt, Oskar Fried, Friedrich Wolf, Carola Neher, Herbert Wehner, Bruno Beater, Waldemar Verner, Heinz Kessler, Hans Hellmann, Rudolf Bamler, Heinrich Koenen, Lilly Becher, Konrad Wolf, Elly Winter, Fritz Noether, Heinrich Vogeler, Erich Weinert, Lothar Bolz, Peter Gingold, Shimon Sholom Kalish, Sophie Liebknecht, Anton Ackermann, Hans Tiedge, Stephan Cohn-Vossen, Willi Bredel, Josef Kiefel, Hedda Zinner. Excerpt: Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 - January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever. His contemporaries used to say that Lasker used a "psychological" approach to the game, and even that he sometimes deliberately played inferior moves to confuse opponents. Recent analysis, however, indicates that he was ahead of his time and used a more flexible approach than his contemporaries, which mystified many of them. Lasker knew the openings well but disagreed with many contemporary analyses. He published chess magazines and five chess books, but later players and commentators found it difficult to draw lessons from his methods. He demanded high fees for playing matches and tournaments, which aroused criticism at the time but contributed to the development of chess as a professional career....
