Three questions on Germanic affairs

[Gary Kern <gkern@alumni.princeton.edu>]

Dear Jüngerites:

I have three questions only remotely relating to EJ, yet definitely
connected to German culture in the 1920's & 30's and therefore hopefully
admissable as background material.

Can anyone provide any information on any of the following three items:

1. Zersetzungsdienst--a German intelligence unit operating in the 1920's
before the failed 1923 revolution.  Was it the Communist intelligence
service, or the state?  And do you translate it into English as
"Sedition Service"?

2. There was a street in Vienna where the tiny Austrian Communist Party
held a demonstration in 1919 in support of the shortlived Hungarian
Soviet Republic.  My source reads "Zähringstrasse."  Is that correct,
and does it mean anything?  The demonstrators were shot down, but
Krivitsky, the hero of my book, escaped.

3. In 1934 there was a Paris-based Committee for Freedom in Germany,
headed by Heinrich Mann.  Does anyone know anything about it?  My source
says that Walter Krivitsky, the Soviet spymaster and subject of my book,
recruited the group.

If EJ figures in any of these matters, all the better!

GK