I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I’d been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational minister, had some sympathy with the idea that the Jews had killed Christ. But any indoctrination was offset by my discovery of the concentration camps, of the Final Solution. Whilst the term 'Holocaust' had yet to enter the vocabulary I was overwhelmed by my realisation of what Germany had perpetrated on Jews. It became a major factor in my movement towards the political left. I’d already read 'The Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck, the Penguin paperback that would change my life. The story of the gas chambers completed the process of radicalisation and would, just three years later, lead me to join the Communist Party.
Phillip AdamsTags: politics sympathy atheist antisemitism holocaust awareness communism germany jews father communist minister steinbeck the-grapes-of-wrath concentration-camps final-solution john-steinbeck christ-killers christian-church communist-party congregational-minister gas-chambers
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
David RemnickTags: corruption mafia soviet-union communist-party russian-politics
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