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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.
Willi Münzenberg, a German Communist, allied himself with other Communists to undertake an independent investigation of the fire.
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.
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
For this was the body of a man named Willi Münzenberg, and Willi Münzenberg had lived and died as one of the unseen powers of twentieth-century Europe. When the hunters found it, his corpse was almost entirely covered with fallen leaves.
- Stephen Koch
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At the height of his influence, Münzenberg controlled from his Berlin headquarters a seemingly invincible network of Communist front organizations—charities, publishers, newspapers, magazines, theaters, film studios, and cinema houses—which stretched, on paper at least, from Buenos Aires to Tokyo.
On the night of the Reichstag fire, February 27, 1933, Münzenberg fled across the German border and made his way to Paris. At that juncture in his life he had already attained the reputation of a masterful organizer of communist propaganda in Germany. Münzenberg, of proletarian origins, came to radical politics at an early age, assumed
