Frank Knopfelmacher

Frank Knopfelmacher (Vienna, 3 February 1923 - Melbourne, 17 May 1995), Australian-domiciled political philosopher and psychologist, the subject of nationally famous controversies during the 1960s and 1970s. A youthful card-carrying Communist while working on a Palestine kibbutz, Knopfelmacher - often nicknamed "Franta" throughout his life - spent World War II as a member of the Free Czech Forces attached to the British Army. The Nazis rounded up and slew every last one of his relatives. Once Prague (to which he had returned in 1945) had been taken over by those Communists on whom reading Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon had soured him, he used money from his family estate to bribe officials into letting him flee to England. He...