Augustin Souchy

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Augustin Souchy (1892—1984) was a German anarchist, antimilitarist, and journalist.

During World War I, he emigrated to Sweden (in 1915) to avoid conscription, only to be expelled two years later by the Swedish government in response to his antimilitarist propagandizing. He was from then on a world traveller, moving back to Germany at one point, and living at various times in Spain, South America, and France. He was highly active in the anarchist movement wherever he resided, and worked with famous anarchists including Rudolf Rocker and Peter Kropotkin.

He was active within the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Spain, and participated in the Spanish Revolution during the Spanish Civil War. His work The Tragic Week in May is one the few firsthand accounts of the Barcelona May Days of 1937 available. After the war, he was detained in France but managed to escape to Mexico.

Souchy spent the remainder of his life working in various labor and anarchist organizations and continuing his journalism.