[Paul Anderson papers]

The file contains a travel report of Paul Anderson, who was a foreign correspondent of 'The Observer'. After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, Paul Anderson went to Great Britain and worked for the channel "European Revolution" and later for 'The Observer'. Under the pseudonym Peter Peterson he worked as a political commentator. Also his wife worked for British black propaganda radio station "Sender der Europäischen Revolution" which broadcast news and anti-Nazi propaganda to Germany between 1940 and 1942. He and his wife, Evelyn Anderson, became prominent members of the small group of socialist exiles from Nazi Germany in Britain. This file contains a travel reports about the political trends and currents in Central and Southeastern Europe. It covers the countries Austraia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey. Although Turkey is not a Southeastern Europe country in the geographical sense it was included for political reasons. The author points out that the political development, move or event in Central and Southeast Europe has to be ragarded as a reaction to or consequences of Germany's actual or assuymed intentions. In this pattern he explains the situation for every of the seven countries mentioned and shows which possible options could emerge. Always based on the intentions and actual influences of the Nazi regime, the international situation and the economic and political circumstances in the particular country, as well as its internal and foreign policy. The question of Germany's actual influence is another matter. But as the auther argues, that his impression of the general atmosphere and because of certain features of Germany's fereign policy, such as Nazi propaganda and agitation abroad, the actual strengh of Germany's influence is increasing.