Augustin Souchy
Augustin Souchy Bauer (28 August 1892 – 1 January 1984) was a German anarchist, antimilitarist, labor union official and journalist. He traveled widely and wrote extensively about the Spanish Civil War and intentional communities. He was born in Ratibor, Germany (now Racibórz, Poland). Biography 
In 1915, during World War I, he emigrated to Sweden to avoid military service, being exiled by the Swedish government two years later for anti-militaristic propaganda. From then on, he traveled throughout the world returning to Germany once and living in Spain, South America and France at different times. He was very active in the anarchist movement wherever he lived and worked together with many famous anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Rudolf Rocker. H participated in Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and in the Spanish revolution during the Spanish Civil War. His work "The Tragic Week in May" is one of the few first hand sources that exist on the May Days of 1937 in Barcelona. After the war he was arrested in France but managed to escape to Mexico. He spent the rest of his life working together with syndicalist and anarchist organizations and remained active as a journalist. He died in Munich on January 1, 1984. Bibliography
These are Souchy's works that have been translated into English: 
 The Tragic Week in May, CNT-FAI, 1937 (account of sectarian violence in Spain during the Spanish Revolution)
 With the Peasants of Aragon, Cienfuegos Press, 1982 (Souchy's account of Spanish peasant cooperatives)
 Beware! Anarchist!, Charles H. Kerr, Chicago, 1992 (Souchy's autobiography)
For a more complete listing, see the German Wikipedia article at Augustin Souchy. Further reading

References

External links
 Souchy papers and audio collection at the International Institute of Social History
The Tragic Week in May
Photos of Augustin Souchy

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1892 births
1984 deaths
20th-century German journalists
20th-century German male writers
20th-century German non-fiction writers
Anarchist writers
Anarcho-syndicalists
German anarchists
German anti-capitalists
German anti-war activists
German libertarians
German male journalists
German male non-fiction writers
German opinion journalists
German people of the Spanish Civil War
Libertarian socialists
Members of the Free Workers' Union of Germany
People from the Province of Silesia
People from Racibórz