Life
The son of a laborer, Hager passed the high school exam (Abitur) in 1931, after a visit of Primary and High School. He was a member of the YMCA and Socialist Federal Student, worked as a journalist and entered the KPD in 1930, and the Red Front fighters covenant in 1932. In 1933 he took part in a sabotage against Hitlers first speech on the radio ( "Cable assassination"), was arrested and came into the KZ Heuberg. After a brief detention, he emigrated 1936.
Until 1937, he worked as a courier for the Communist youth organization of Germany in Switzerland, France and the CSR. 1937-1939 he participated in the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, where he worked for the "German freedom broadcasting station" and the foreign radio program from Madrid.
In 1939 he was detained in France and then emigrated to England. There he was responsible for the international organization of the KPD active, writing under the pseudonym "Felix Albin". After the outbreak of war, he was interned, first in Huyton near Liverpool, and later on the Isle of Man.
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