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In 1937, London went to fight in the Spanish Civil War as member of the International Brigade. He moved to France after the defeat of the Republicans and, during World War II, was arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp. Not to be confused with the Spanish Civil War of 1820-1823. ... Blason of the International Brigades The International Brigade was the name given to the band of volunteers and mercenaries who travelled to Spain to fight against the Nationalist forces led by General Franco and helped by Nazi German and Mussolini Italian forces, and defend the legitimate Spanish Republic government in... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal         Nazism, or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the totalitarian ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ... Mauthausen (from summer 1940, Mauthausen-Gusen) was a group of 49 Nazi concentration camps situated around the small town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria, about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz. ...

After the war he lived in Switzerland but soon moved with family to Prague, where he became a leading figure in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and was eventually nominated deputy minister of foreign affairs in 1948. In 1951 he was arrested and became a co-defendant in the Prague Trials alongside Rudolf Slánský. London was accused of being a Zionist, Trotskyite and Titoist and was sentenced to life in prison. For other uses, see Prague (disambiguation). ... The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana ÄŒeskoslovenska (KSÄŒ) was a political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. ... The Prague Trials were a series of Stalinist and largely anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia. ... Rudolf Slánský (July 31, 1901, NezvÄ›stice near Kladno – December 2, 1952) was a Czech Communist politician and the partys General Secretary after the World War II. Later he fell into disfavour with the regime and was executed after a show trial. ... This article is about Zionism as a movement, not the History of Israel. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980) was the ruler of Yugoslavia between the end of World War II and his death in 1980. ...

He was released in 1955 and rehabilitated in 1963. He moved to France where together with his wife they wrote L'Aveu (the Confession) about his ordeal in the Prague Trials. While the main defendants were senior to London, he became more famous worldwide as a result of the book. The book was made into a film directed by Costa-Gavras and starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. Political rehabilitation is the process by which a member of a political organization or government who has fallen into disgrace is restored to public life. ... LAveu (English title: The Confession) is a 1970 french-italian film directed by Costa Gavras and starred by Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. ... Constantinos Gavras (born February 12, 1933, Loutra-Iraias, Greece), better known as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French filmmaker best known for films with overt political themes. ... Yves Montand Yves Montand (October 13, 1921 – November 9, 1991) was a French/Italian actor, born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Alto, Italy. ... Simone Signoret (March 25, 1920 - September 30, 1985), was an Academy Award-winning French actress. ...

His wife, Lise, recounts the events in the documentary _A Trial in Prague_, dir. Zuzana Justman (2002, 83min).

He died in Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Media

• London, Artur (1971). Confession. USA: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0345221702. 

External links

• Interview (in French) about his life with Lise London (Lise Ricol), his wife