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Ce L & 100-28112 This source reflects that Confidential National Defense :nformant™ \ = who is acquainted with BRECHT personally, saw BRECET in !oscow in » at which time BRECHT was ghowing a picture with Communist tendencies entitled "Kuhlewampe." Informant stated that HANNS EISLER wrote the music accompanying this picture, but that he could not be positive that he had seen BISLER in Moscow at the time BRECHT wes showing the picture. This picture had as ite subject the unemployed who lived in a tent colony near Berlin, scoording. to informant. SOURCE This source reflects that in 1955 a literary magazine entitled "pas Wort" (The Tord) was published it carried the signatures of BERT \ BRECHT, LIOK/-FEUCHTWANGER, and WI BREDEL as editors. This magatine was , published by a group of political refugees who fled Germany after the Reichstag fire on February 27, 1953, to Russia. This group of political refugees included many Communist deputies and writers, some of whom were leaders in the Communist Party of Germany. LION FEUCHTWGANGER is know to this office as « German refugee writer with comounistic sympathies, presently in the Los Angeles area and collaborating with BERT BRECHT and HANNS EISL®R in the Free German novement. Concerning ILLI BREDEL, available information reflects that in 1923 } be participated in a Communist revolt in Hamburg, Germany, and in 1928 he be- { came editor of the organ of the Communists in Hamburg, “Hamburg People's Wews- t paper.” After Hitler came to power he was put into e concentration camp for a year or more. During the Spanish Civil War he fought in the International | Brigade. He is presently a member of the Free German Committee in Noscow, iy and articles prepared by him appear in “Freies Deutschland,” the official organ of the Free German movement emanating from ifexico. = source This source reflects that BERT BR°CHT's play, "Die Mutter,” ws presented in New York City in 1935. A review of this play, which is contained in the book entitled “Brecht, Gessamelte Werke, Volume 2," discloses that it contains material favoring Communian, specifically those songs contained in this play entitled “Praise of Communism® and “Praise of the Revolutionary.* . Explanatory material published together with this pley in the above-mentioned book reflects that the New York Daily worker for November 22, 1935, stated regard t “Die Mutter"; “It was BRECHT's plan to have a spectacle pre the dramtie story of the present day mass struggle whitch must culminate im the viotery ef the proletariat.* oe