Dr Gustav REGLER, alias Gustavo Emilio STEINMETZ: German, Spanish, Mexican. A writer,...

Dr Gustav REGLER, alias Gustavo Emilio STEINMETZ: German, Spanish, Mexican. A writer, REGLER first came to notice in 1933 as a leader of Saarland (his birthplace) resistance to Hitler, which cost him his German nationality in 1934. He became an active international communist in Paris and Geneva (and allegedly a close friend of Willi Munzenberg and Egon Kisch). In 1936 he joined the International Brigade, becoming Chief Political Commissar until he was seriously wounded in 1937. He was interned in France. On release, he went to Mexico, his expenses allegedly paid by Ernest Hemingway. Much of the file consists of reports on his evolving political views, which reflect his disillusionment with Stalinism after Spain and consequent squabbles with the Mexican Communist Party and others