(GMT) in Mexico. Because the GMT called for revolutionary defeatism in Spain, the Mexican Trotskyists alleged that they were witting or unwitting agents of the Gestapo. Despite the hostile political climate, the GMT managed to publish three issues of their journal Comunismo. Comunismo again defended the positions of the communist left: the identification of the USSR as capitalist, revolutionary defeatism in all warring nations, etc. Later life After 1941, Kirchhoff appeared to retire from active political life. He died in Mexico City in 1972. Notes References ; External links Brief biography, Programa de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Mesoamérica y el Sureste (PROIMMSE) 1900 births 1972 deaths People from Halle (Westfalen) German anthropologists Communist Workers' Party of Germany politicians Mexican anthropologists German Mesoamericanists German emigrants to Mexico Mesoamerican anthropologists National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty Leipzig University alumni 20th-century Mesoamericanists 20th-century anthropologists Left communists