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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.
Wilhelm „Willi“ Münzenberg (* 14. August 1889 in Erfurt; † Juni 1940 in Saint-Marcellin, Département Isère, Frankreich) war ein deutscher Politiker ( KPD ), Verleger und Filmproduzent.
Jun 27, 2024 · 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
Mar 28, 2021 · In the 1920s and ’30s, German publisher Willi Münzenberg built a network of magazines, newspapers, and film studios that terrified big business interests. It became the largest left-wing media operation in history.
Willy Münzenberg-an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon-became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars....
Willi Münzenberg was a German communist and journalist who opposed Nazism and Stalinism. He founded the International Workers’ Relief Organization, the Brown Books and the German Popular Front, and fled to France in 1933.
Dec 11, 2003 · This book tells the story of Willi Munzenberg, a Communist tycoon who created front groups and media empire to promote Soviet causes in Europe. It reveals how he manipulated finances, propaganda, and politics, and how he contributed to the rise of Nazism.
