Albert Norden exposes the extensive role German Industrialists played in the Foreign Policy of Nazi Germany and the enormous profits the reaped as a result.
In 1919 he became a member of the Young Communist League and in 1920 of the Communist Party Germany (KPD). Between 1931 and 1933, he was the editor of Rote Fahne.
In 1933 he migrated to France and in exile he kept publishing anti-nazi materials including Braunbuch on the Reichstagsfire,
In 1946 he returned to Berlin and joined the Socialist Unity Party of German Democratic Republic.