Paul Wohl (1901 – April 2, 1985) was a German-born journalist and political commentator.
Background
Paul Wohl was born in 1901 in Berlin.
Career
In 1938, Wohl came to the United States as a correspondent for
Czechoslovak
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**First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–38)
**Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–39)
**Third Czechoslovak Republic (1948–60)
**Fourth Czechoslovak Repub ...
newspapers.
[ He worked for the '']Christian Science Monitor
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'' from 1941 until 1979, when he retired.[ He also contributed to the '' New York Herald Tribune'', '']The Nation
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'', ''Barron's Barron's or Barrons may refer to:
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** B.E.S. Publishing, the former owner of Barron's
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'', and '' Commonweal''.[
In the mid-1920s, Wohl met ]Soviet
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spy
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Walter Krivitsky
Walter Germanovich Krivitsky (Ва́льтер Ге́рманович Криви́цкий; June 28, 1899 – February 10, 1941) was a Soviet intelligence officer who revealed plans of signing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact after he defected to ...
. Months after Krivitsky defected, Wohl left Europe for the States and became Krivitsky's literary agent. Wohl (and Isaac Don Levine
Isaac Don Levine (January 19, 1892 – February 15, 1981) was a 20th-century Russian-born American journalist and anticommunist writer, who is known as a specialist on the Soviet Union.
He worked with Soviet ex-spy Walter Krivitsky in a 1939 exp ...
as ghostwriter) helped the non-English-speaking Krivitsky write his memoir ''In Stalin's Secret Service'' (1939). At the time of its publication, they argued about fees owed to Wohl and severed their connection.[
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Death
Paul Wohl died age 84 in April 1985 at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, after living three years at the Pelham Parkway Nursing Home.[
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See also
* Walter Krivitsky
Walter Germanovich Krivitsky (Ва́льтер Ге́рманович Криви́цкий; June 28, 1899 – February 10, 1941) was a Soviet intelligence officer who revealed plans of signing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact after he defected to ...
* Isaac Don Levine
Isaac Don Levine (January 19, 1892 – February 15, 1981) was a 20th-century Russian-born American journalist and anticommunist writer, who is known as a specialist on the Soviet Union.
He worked with Soviet ex-spy Walter Krivitsky in a 1939 exp ...
* Louis Waldman
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1901 births
1985 deaths
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American writers
German Marxists
German journalists
German male journalists
American male journalists
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New York Herald Tribune people
German emigrants to the United States
German male writers