When Fischer and his wife arrived at Hotel Lux , the Stalinist purges were still taking place and the exiles living at the hotel were living in a climate of fear and terror . The autumn after their arrival , Fischer came home from work one evening , looking terrified . Gustl Deutsch , an Austrian who had been arrested and had imprisoned , had managed to smuggle him a note to alert him to the danger facing Fischer . Under torture , Deutsch had named Fischer as being involved in a plot against Stalin 's life . Although the charges were completely false , by being accused , Fischer was in grave danger and he immediately sought help from Georgi Dimitrov , one of the leaders of the Comintern . Dimitrov replied , " I will be able to save you , but the others ... ? " After the war , Fischer remained an important figure in the KPÖ until 1969 . He served as Communist Minister of Information in the first post-war government of Renner ( 27 April 1945 – 20 December 1945 )
Stalinist purges
Great Purge
Ernst Fischer (writer)