![]() ![]() Within months, they were seized by police. Traveling under assumed names, they crossed Europe and North and South America to reach Brazil, where Prestes would launch a revolution against the fascist regime. At twenty-six, she was chosen to serve as bodyguard to the legendary Brazilian Communist guerrilla leader Luis Carlos Prestes, who had been brought to Moscow for training and would soon become her new lover. ![]() Together they escaped to Moscow, where they quickly rose in the ranks of the international Communist movement. At the age of nineteen, she masterminded a daring prison raid to free her lover, the Communist intellectual Otto Braun. ![]() Blessed with a genius for organization and an unwavering devotion, the beautiful, willful daughter of a liberal Munich lawyer crisscrossed the globe educating and activating legions to combat the worldwide plagues of Nazism and fascism. Olga Benario, German and Jewish, was one of the most remarkable Communist activists of the twentieth century. ![]()
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