14 Friday, August 12, 1977THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -

Leadership in Psychiatry and Family's Involvement
in Israel Marking the 60th Birthday of Dr. Peter Martin

A family's 'unification in
the redeemed Eretz Yisrael
and identification with the
Jewish liberation move-
ment and with professional
dedication will mark Dr.
Peter Martin's 60th birth-
day in Israel next week.
Dr. Martin not - only will
observe his natal day in.the
Land of. -ITrael. He also will
attend the International Psy-
choanalytic Meetings in Je-
rusalem, Aug. 22-29.
Dr. and Mrs. Martin will
be accompanied on their
trip to Israel for the impor-
tant events by daughter Ar-
lene Dickman and grandson
Kenneth-; son and daughter-
in-law Dr. and Mrs. Rich-
ard (Helene) Martin of .Ok-
lahoma City and grand-
daughter Elizabeth; and
daughter Joan.

DR. PETER MARTIN

Dr. Martin is a graduate
of Wayne University and its
medical school, and was
one of two 1977 recipients of
the medical alumni asSoci-

ation's
Distinguished
Alumni Award.
He just completed a one-
year term as president of
the American College of
Psychiatrists.
Dr. Martin is active at
Cong. Shaarey Zedek and
plays a leading role in ad-
vancing the congregation's
cultural programs. Dr. Mar-
tin was the honoree of
Shaarey Zedek's annual Is-
rael Bond dinner in 1975.
He has also been active in
the Soviet Jewry movement
and has contributed many
articles to The Jewish
News.
He serves on the staffs of
Sinai Hospital of Detroit
and University Hospital in
Ann Arbor and is a mem-
ber of the adjunct faculties
at the Wayne State Univer-

sity and University of Mich-
igan schools of medicine.
He is a member of the
American Medical Associ-
ation, the Michigan and
Wayne County medical so-
cieties, the American Psy-
chiatric Association, the
American Board of Neurolo-
gy and Psychiatry, the
American Psychoanalytic
Association, the Central
Neuropsychiatric Society,
the Michigan Society of Neu-
rology and Psychiatry and
the Michigan Psycho-
analytic Institute. He has
served as an officer or on
committees of many of
these groups.
He was a special mental
health consultant to Gov.
George Romney and was
chairman of the State of
Michigan Advisory Council

on Mental Health Services
from 1963-66.
The American College of
Psychiatrists honored Dr.
Martin in 1974 with its Gold
Medal Bowis Award for his
contributions to the otgani-
zation and to psychiatry.
Last year he was given the
Michigan State Medical So-
ciety's National President's
Award.
Dr. Martin has written
more than 40 articles and
five books, including "A Ma-
rital Therapy Manual"
which has been a book-of-
the-month club selection by
two psychiatric groups.

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bands they wore, were iden-
tified with a gang of Ju-
denschlaeger (Jew killers)
who ranged Franconia and
Alsace from 1336-1339, ra-
vaging Jewish commu-
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Soviet-Jewish Revolutionary Psychoanalyzed;
Victim of Stalinism Fails to Learn His Lesson

A Review by
DR. PETER MARTIN
"The Great Game: Mem-
oirs of the Spy Hitler
Couldn't Silence," by Leop-
old Trepper (McGraw-Hill)
is not one book; it is sever-
al books. For one, it is an
historical document written
by the head of the Soviet
anti-Nazi espionage net-
work which was called "the
Red Orchestra" by the Ges-
tapo.
The "great game" was to
counter-attack against the
plan of the Gestapo by giv=
ing information to the Rus-
sians.
Members of the Red Or-
chestra, linked to,the Resist-
ance, were involved in the
fight against Fascism in
Germany and in the Nazi-
occupied countries. The par-
ticipants were men and
women from 13 nations,
from different social strata,
and with different ideo-
logies.
This disparate group
united in the common
struggle under the direction
of the Secret Services of
the General Staff of the
Red Army. They spear-
headed the Resistance; tran-
scended nationalities as
brothers in arms against
Hitler.
There were a large num-
ber of Germans in the Red
Orchestra, German patriots
who understood that Nazi
defeat alone would guaran-
tee the freedom of the Ger-
man people and the contin-
ued existence of a German
state.
As ,an historical docu-
ment, Trepper includes in
the appendixes many pages
of French, German and Yu-
goslavian documents which
verify the facts about the
Red Orchestra in contrast
to many previous reports
written about their activi-
ties.
Though Trepper was a
militant Communist and a
one time member of the
Comintern, this book does
not *show Russia under Sta-
linism in any better light
than Germany under Hitler.
And after World War II, he
was imprisoned by Stalin
for nearly 10 years and

later lived in Poland (his
birthplace) under house ar-
rest.
Despite his courageous ef-
forts that contributed to the
defeat of Nazism, he be-
came a victim of Stalinism
and then of the anti-Semi-
tism inspired by Secretary
General Gomulka of the Pol-
ish Communist Party. "
Though Trepper does not
draw this conclusion; the
repetition by history does:
As in Germany, so too in
Russia, to anti-Semites, the
trait of being Jewish out-
weighs all considerations of
the Jews' devotion, dedica-
tion or contributions to
their country of, -origin.
As a second tYpe of book,
this is an autobiography of
a man representative of his
generation of European
Jews. Born at the beginning
of the century, they lived
through World War I and II
and the years in between,
' including the October Revo-
lution, the development of
Nazism, the perversion of
the revolution by Stalinism,
and the growing, crushing
plague of the Brown Shirts.
Then came the defeat of
Hitler, the death and the re-
action against Stalin. the
birth of the Jewish state
and freedom, the current
perversion of the revolution
by Brezhnevism in Russia
and resurrgence of Nazism
in current Germany.
In this autobiographical
aspect, Trepper is the un-
swerving, unchanging, unre-
pentant non-religious Jew-
ish internationalist univer-
salist and revolutionary.

To illustrate, once he was
sitting on the speaker's plat-
form in a French syna-
gogue and listening to Mar-
cel Cachin, an old revolu-
tionary leader.
Cachin
said,
"Dear
friends, it is a great honor
for me to be here among
the representatives of a
race which has given the
world some great revolu-
tionaries. I am talking
about Jesus Christ, Spinoza
and Marx! I'm sure you're
aware, my friends, that
Karl Marx's grandfather
was a rabbi."

Trepper was surprised
and annoyed by these
words, which to him had
the ring of petit-bourgeois
nationalism.
He writes, "I could not
care less about all this; but
the audience was entranced
by it. (Reviewer's note: In
contrast, more Jews are en-
tranced by the glory of the
Jewish people than by the
glory of the revolution.)
They seemed to find it
much more important than
the writing of "Capital" by
the grandson of the rabbi in
question."
This then -is the core of
Trepper. The Jews are the
people of the Book—the
Bible. Trepper, and "non-
religious" Jews of his type
were people of the book too.
But they chose a different
book. And they were as de-
voted to the principles of
their book as the most re:
verent Jewish martyr who
died with the word of God
on his lips.
This book is filled with
the suffering, and torture
and deaths which they expe-
rienced in the name of their
cause.
Trepper was as dedicated
to Judaism as he was to
Communism. He believed
with Lenin that "Anti-Semi-
tism is the counter-
revolution," and believed
that Lenin had advocated
the creation of a Jewish na-
tion within the Soviet Union
that would enjoy the same
rights as the other repub-
lics.
As you can see, ,Trepper
is a well-intentioned man
and believed that other
men are also well in-
tentioned; forgetting that
the road to Hell is paved
with good intentions. He al-
so has the same naivete
that Freud considered
Marx and Communism to
have.
Such men do not under-
stand human nature. They
do not understand that
power corrupts and that ab-
solute power corrupts abso-
lutely. Time has proven
Freud to be correct about
Communism.
I suppose this is what
bothered me throughout the

reading of this book. I knew
I was reading about a cou-
rageous man who accom-
plished great feats. I knew
that this was a spy thriller
and exciting. But I couldn't
respond with these pleas-
ures.
The price which his fam-
ily paid for his achieve-
ments bothered me. For ex-
ample, when he accepted
an offer to leave Russia to
set up the Red Orchestra in
Western Europe, he went to
the boarding school to say
goodbye to his son, Mi-
chael.
He says, "it broke my
heart to leave him in his
boarding school, which
looked to me so much like
an orphanage."
He then went to the
railway station nearby, as
he was waiting, he heard
screams behind him. It was
Michel shouting : "Don't
leave me. don't leave me, I
don't want to be alone!" He
was not to see him again
for 16 years.
His motto was: "Listen
only to your conscience.
For a revolutionary that is
the final judge." This is the
type of response that turned
me off to Trepper and his
type of hero.
He did not regret the com-
mitment of his youth, nor
the paths that he had taken.
He ends by saying that he
has not sacrificed his life
for nothing, on one condi-
tipn; that people under-
stand the lesson of his life
as a Communist and as a
revolutionary, and do not
turn themselves over to a
deified party.
He ends by saying: "I
know that youth will suc-
ceed where we have failed,
that socialism will triumph,
and that it will not have the
color of the Russian tanks
that crushed Prague."
Trepper has not learned
the lesson of his own book:
The more things change,
the more they remain the
same. He does better when
(as he did on June 7, 1977)
he warns the Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai Brith
of current Nazi propaganda
in Germany and Soviet
anti-Semitism in Russia.

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