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Wilhelm Münzenberg (14 August 1889 – June 1940) was a German Communist political activist and publisher. Münzenberg was the first head of the Young Communist International in 1919–20 and established the famine-relief and propaganda organization Workers International Relief in 1921.
Nov 3, 2005 · The latest writer to tackle this theme is Sean McMeekin, whose The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg offers a revisionist view of the German Communist media mogul who had powerful influence on the European left from the early 1920s until his mysterious death in 1940. From his base in Weimar Berlin and later in Paris ...
Brief notices in French newpsapers of October 22, 1940 announcing the death of Willi Münzenberg failed to attract the attention of the international press occupied with reporting the progress of the Second World War. Münzenberg's body had been discovered in the woods of Cagnet in Southwestern France with a wire garrote around the neck.
- Helmut Gruber
- 1965
Dec 11, 2003 · Willi Munzenberg—an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon—became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and ran an international media ...
Wilhelm „Willi“ Münzenberg war ein deutscher Politiker, Verleger und Filmproduzent. Mit dem Neuen Deutschen Verlag, den Zeitungen Welt am Abend, Berlin am Morgen und vor allem der Arbeiter-Illustrierten-Zeitung, gehörte Münzenberg zu den einflussreichsten Vertretern der KPD der Weimarer Republik. Er wandte sich nach 1937 von der ...
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1npbws.25. 978-0-300-13009-6. History. Willy Münzenberg-an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon-became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars....
Jul 26, 2017 · Who was Willy Münzenberg (1889 – 1940)? What role did he play in the LAI? Willi Münzenberg was pivotal for the LAI. Being a German communist and member of the German Reichstag, Münzenberg has been recognised as the leading entrepreneurial force in the development of communist propaganda in Europe and beyond between the wars.