Re: [ejlist] Three questions on Germanic affairs

[richard_al <richard_al@csi.com>]

Gary Kern wrote:
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
.../...
> 
> 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
> 


Probably Willy Munzenberg was part of it, perhaps the head, at
least the main activist of the committee, as Koestler describes in
his bio. 

richard