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Bertolt Brecht — Part 3

90 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Oct 20, 1947 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Bertolt Brecht · 90 pages OCR'd
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- ur. z. Orehan Mort eon ° Executive Assistant to the attorney Generel Mm ‘Deceater Se 1947 ae wae jg Strestor, I aes ee . (oo ah tes ~ “ Pe | ee owe. 2 ace “Se eee nae =e : 3 a ie = EEGOLT SUGER FarIEvai¢ BH SAE, Witte a1 189868; . ra “s | ae JNTERTAL SBCURITY - 2 F e. oe ‘Please refer to my menorandus to you of November 3, 1947 in vation " .4), You were advised econ e ae had farnitvhed information ureau re subject's te! % eonnections after the subject testified October 30, 1947 before the Un~-Anericam * J Aetivitios Soumi tee. that he hed never been a meaber of any Commniet Purtye hy letter of Woveaber 6, 1947, confidentially afvised. i Threcht has always acted and written as a propagandist of Com = = tis ; yypniem and Sovietian, In 1919 he was editorislist of the/Rote 7ebne’ SP Flag) in dugeborg. As a first reader of a vell-know German » ,APUbU shing House fret Masken Verlag) I have followed Brecht's career. -.. fra that time on. Brecht was an gnswering advocate of Soviet policy : , iy in Sovmany he wrote several outrizht commantetic playa; among thea “ag B27 . g of the Slanghter Houses"), oe latter play ie located | ‘fm America and Brecht tries to prove the necessity of the dowfall ef x : ‘Gapitaliam and free enterprise. In 1932, the Democratic (Pre-Hitlerian) 2g ©, Poverament of Hesse (Darmstadt) forbade the performance of ‘St. Joan. ry “of the Slaughter Nouses’ because of its Commnistic tendency, One of | “3 Z the: eharter plays of Brecht (I forgot the title) is written in praise | ‘Tef the secret societies in all countries which work for Soviet Ruesia. — = x *Agertned recht was im Moecow eeveral timesr he was co-editor of the Zk jy Wusslan aagasing Des Yor Wort’ (it appeared in Moscow during the Basi... - wiser} Sta nedl dn German Tangiage). I reneaber distinctly to have reed in ‘one’ AS. ef the issues a diatribe of Brecht ageinst America. I haspen to be -— BER * ‘4m contact with friends of Brecht and therefore I know that he hag “4 33- .... . mot deviated a dit from the official Russian party line. Ser at s ‘ago he sald something like that; he and his like are now obliged * . °° pale themselves off ‘as deuccrate’. As far as I knov, Rreck® pt eet ‘to travel to Burope very soon Vie Svitserland and I em convine ae acy: -. ¥bo will try to sove in the Bastern Zone of Germany in order Coe oF his fonmaal sti ideas aq dove named vorks of Brecht ares is : Lasbety, at who reais thea will Foub wn /6C_ - 190? 678 fitared gettin Service at ¥*4 be ee the t left Few Tork & e Dirlistes. BE
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