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teeter tam EN ee © Oe ROR cen Or 4¢ termine Butae ob hore OWemwow WT at oer s wW oun endum for thu man Communist /etiviries In The Western Hemisphere." In this memorandum informant stated that tne German-American Emei gency Conferents must be regerced in its organizational set-up mainly as a helding,! or a roof organization; besides individual members and memberships also consisted of delegates from other organiza-~ tions; among those other organizations, the German-Americar League for Culture and certain branches of the Worlmen's Sick and Ben.ficiel Funds were the main supporters. Tn2ormant stateé further in this menorandum ths: "the fuct tnet tne Germo-samericen League fer Culture tw the same aims as the German-American bhmergensy Conforsnce - is apparent from the publication in the German-American of May, 1943," which was set out in thls reference, Tols article stated in part that "the founding ef the German-American Leasue for Culture in the year 1933 was occasioned by the unprecedented brutal destruction of rc lturs carrisd out ty Nazism in Germany. ‘Ihe burning of the books on . May 10, 19535, the eviction of worla-famous German anthora und scientists, anong them numerous Nobel Prize winners, such as Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein, (from 1901 to 1927, et Nobel Prizes were given to German scientists), the brutal interference with arvistic and sclentifie creaticnv, which in the ficic of music, for instance, led to the results that Germany for tne fir.v time in two hundred years, hes not even produced 4 second cless composer, placed us umider the ooligetion +o prot toct and to foeter German cul tural wolute violated by hazism, and to combat tits Hazie: pia renort, “Deutach fmerikanischer Res t Kulturverband (German-American League ‘for Culturc) Ish 100-1321905-10 p. 6 (55)! m AMH:f jh AY