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Bertolt Brecht — Part 4
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~~, s=~Za 19235 Brecht reportedly was a co-editor of a mazasine entitled 1
Vor", which was published in Russia by a group of political refugees £
Germany whose nuabers included many Commnist deputies and vriters. x
Lion Peuchtvanger and Willi Bredel, reported Communists, were co-ed tors .-
with Brecht.
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It is reported that in 1935 Brecht's play "Die Yatter* wes:
presented in New York. This play appears in the book ertitied "Erecht,
Gesaemmelte Yorke, Vol. 2°. It is reported that the play contains material
1s favoring Commnia, specifically, songs entitled "Praise of Conzun{sn" asd
*Praise of the Bevolutionary". The New York Dally Worker for Novezber 22, 1936,
stated that in regard to the play that "It was Breoht's plan to have a spectacle
present the dramatic story cf the preeent day macs struggle vhich must culminate
in the victory of the proletariat”. In 1936 Bert Brecht reportedly ws ia
Los Angeles and was one of a group that formed the German-Conmunist Nodern
-“" Masic Group under the direction of Professor Eli Jacobson, Russian cyupathiser.
: Various 1937 issues of “International Literature" published by
_* State Literary-irt Publishing House, Moscow, Russia carried articles by Brecht.
‘ Teeus Fo. 5 for May, 1937, contained an article that Brecht and Sergei
Tretyakov wrote. . “Internation Literature” reportedly was published by the
sane group of German political refugees that published the magazine "Das Wort".
Aprtl § anf 11, 1979. ‘eenea of the "Ahendnost® aAvartian *fae
ss=-— = Ch Se way = a —e Se So
Vort® end reflected that it was still edited by Brecht, Feuchtwanger, and
Willa Bredal,
. In 1939 a collection of Brecht's poems was published under the
title “Svendborger Gedichte, by the Noliik Publishing House, London, England.
: Z¢ was reported that these poems were found to advocate overthrow of capitalisn,
establishment ef a Communist state, and use of sabotage ty labor to attain ite
* *, Aleo im 1939 £t wee alleged that Bert Brecht received the sm =
$00.00 per month from July of thet year to duly, 1940, from a fund solicited
Frits lang, movie director, reportedly a Cormonist Party syxpathizer and a
ee friend of Otte Fats, Russian sympathizer. Yats was said to be aware of
Lang's activities is feraishing funds $o Brecht.
Bert Brecht vas a contribater to the Nagasine "Freies Deutschland",
efficial publication of the Free German Committee, Mexico, D.F. Activities
of the Free German Comittee were reportedly carried on by Otto Kats aad other
well Knows Communists or persons of Commaist inclinations. It is alleged
that the aim of the Free German Ooumittes was the establichnent of nad
om
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