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−	[[Willi Münzenberg]] (1889-1940) was a German Communist. He was one of the most influential propagandists of the Twentieth Century, and was notable for his front organizations and other tactics which would go on to be developed by both East and West in the Cultural Cold War.<ref name="Scammell">Michael Scammell, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/nov/03/the-mystery-of-willi-munzenberg/ The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg], ''New York Review ~~ofBooks~~'', Reviews of ''The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West'' by Sean McMeekin Yale University Press, 397 pp., $32.50; ''Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg, and the Seduction of the Intellectuals'' by Stephen Koch, with an introduction by Sam Tanenhaus Enigma Books, revised and updated edition, 421 pp., $18.00 (paper), 27 April 2010.</ref>	+	[[Willi Münzenberg]] (1889-1940) was a German Communist. He was one of the most influential propagandists of the Twentieth Century, and was notable for his front organizations and other tactics which would go on to be developed by both East and West in the Cultural Cold War.<ref name="Scammell">Michael Scammell, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/nov/03/the-mystery-of-willi-munzenberg/ The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg], ''New York Review of Books'', Reviews of ''The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West'' by Sean McMeekin Yale University Press, 397 pp., $32.50; ''Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg, and the Seduction of the Intellectuals'' by Stephen Koch, with an introduction by Sam Tanenhaus Enigma Books, revised and updated edition, 421 pp., $18.00 (paper), 27 April 2010.</ref>

	As a young Communist, Münzenberg was recruited by [[Leon Trotsky]] into the circle of intellectuals around the exiled [[Vladimir Lenin]] in Geneva. With Lenin's return to Russia in 1917, Münzenberg moved to Berlin as the highest ranking Communist outside the Soviet Union.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.12.</ref>		As a young Communist, Münzenberg was recruited by [[Leon Trotsky]] into the circle of intellectuals around the exiled [[Vladimir Lenin]] in Geneva. With Lenin's return to Russia in 1917, Münzenberg moved to Berlin as the highest ranking Communist outside the Soviet Union.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.12.</ref>

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 As a young Communist, Münzenberg was recruited by [[Leon Trotsky]] into the circle of intellectuals around the exiled [[Vladimir Lenin]] in Geneva. With Lenin's return to Russia in 1917, Münzenberg moved to Berlin as the highest ranking Communist outside the Soviet Union.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.12.</ref>
-In 1921, Münzenberg established the [[Internationale Arbeiterhilfe]] to send famine relief to the Soviet Union.<ref>Michael Scammell, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/nov/03/the-mystery-of-willi-munzenberg/ The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg], 27 April 2010.</ref> This was the first major project in a vast propaganda network that would become known as the [[Münzenberg Trust]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.12.</ref>
+In 1921, Münzenberg established the [[Internationale Arbeiterhilfe]] to send famine relief to the Soviet Union.<ref name="Scammell"/> This was the first major project in a vast propaganda network that would become known as the [[Münzenberg Trust]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.12.</ref>
 After the Reichstag Fire in January 1933, Münzenberg upstaged Hitler's show trial of Communist [[Marinus van der Lubbe]] by staging a mock counter-trial in London and publishing ''The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag''.<ref name="Scammell"/>

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-[[Willi Münzenberg]] (1889-1940) was a German Communist. He was one of the most influential propagandists of the Twentieth Century, and was notable for his front organizations and other tactics which would go on to be developed by both East and West in the Cultural Cold War.<ref>Michael Scammell, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/nov/03/the-mystery-of-willi-munzenberg/ The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg], 27 April 2010.</ref>
+[[Willi Münzenberg]] (1889-1940) was a German Communist. He was one of the most influential propagandists of the Twentieth Century, and was notable for his front organizations and other tactics which would go on to be developed by both East and West in the Cultural Cold War.<ref name="Scammell">Michael Scammell, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/nov/03/the-mystery-of-willi-munzenberg/ The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg],  ''New York Review ofBooks'', Reviews of ''The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West'' by Sean McMeekin Yale University Press, 397 pp., $32.50;  ''Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg, and the Seduction of the Intellectuals'' by Stephen Koch, with an introduction by Sam Tanenhaus Enigma Books, revised and updated edition, 421 pp., $18.00 (paper), 27 April 2010.</ref>
 As a young Communist, Münzenberg was recruited by [[Leon Trotsky]] into the circle of intellectuals around the exiled [[Vladimir Lenin]] in Geneva. With Lenin's return to Russia in 1917, Münzenberg moved to Berlin as the highest ranking Communist outside the Soviet Union.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.12.</ref>
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 In 1921, Münzenberg established the [[Internationale Arbeiterhilfe]] to send famine relief to the Soviet Union.<ref>Michael Scammell, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/nov/03/the-mystery-of-willi-munzenberg/ The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg], 27 April 2010.</ref> This was the first major project in a vast propaganda network that would become known as the [[Münzenberg Trust]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.12.</ref>
-After the Reichstag Fire in January 1933, Münzenberg upstaged Hitler's show trial of Communist [[Marinus van der Lubbe]] by staging a mock counter-trial in London and publishing ''The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag''.<ref>Michael Scammell, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/nov/03/the-mystery-of-willi-munzenberg/ The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg], 27 April 2010.</ref>
+After the Reichstag Fire in January 1933, Münzenberg upstaged Hitler's show trial of Communist [[Marinus van der Lubbe]] by staging a mock counter-trial in London and publishing ''The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag''.<ref name="Scammell"/>
 According to a report extract dated 6 December 1937, in the files of the British [[Security Service]], Münzenberg was moving closer to the [[International Communist Opposition]] at around this time:
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 ==Legacy==
-Of the six contributors to ''[[The God that Failed]]'', three had worked with Münzenberg, [[Ignazio Silone]], [[Arthur Koestler]] and [[Louis Fischer]].<ref>Francis Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 1999, p.65.</ref> Koestler, notably, had helped to edit one of Münzenberg's 'brown books', ''The Nazi Terror in Spain''.<ref>Michael Scammell, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/nov/03/the-mystery-of-willi-munzenberg/ The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg], 27 April 2010.</ref>
+Of the six contributors to ''[[The God that Failed]]'', three had worked with Münzenberg, [[Ignazio Silone]], [[Arthur Koestler]] and [[Louis Fischer]].<ref>Francis Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 1999, p.65.</ref> Koestler, notably, had helped to edit one of Münzenberg's 'brown books', ''The Nazi Terror in Spain''.<ref name="Scammell"/>
-Several former members of the [[Münzenberg Trust]] were present at an August 1949 meeting in Frankfurt with [[Melvin Lasky]] which discussed plans for an anticommunist propaganda organisation.<ref>Francis Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 1999, p.71.</ref>
+Several former members of the [[Münzenberg Trust]] were present at an August 1949 meeting in Frankfurt with [[Melvin Lasky]] which discussed plans for an anticommunist propaganda organisation.<ref>Francis Stonor Saunders, ''Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War'', Granta, 1999, p.71.</ref>
 ==Affiliations==

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 *[[Johannes Becher]]
 *[[Alfred Kantorowicz]]
-*[[Paul Willer]]<ref>Stephen Koch, ''Double Lives - Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals'', Harper Collins, 1996, p.308.</ref>
+*[[Paul Willert]]<ref>Stephen Koch, ''Double Lives - Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals'', Harper Collins, 1996, p.308.</ref>
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 *[[Johannes Becher]]
 *[[Alfred Kantorowicz]]
 ==Notes==

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 After the Reichstag Fire in January 1933, Münzenberg upstaged Hitler's show trial of Communist [[Marinus van der Lubbe]] by staging a mock counter-trial in London and publishing ''The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag''.<ref>Michael Scammell, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/nov/03/the-mystery-of-willi-munzenberg/ The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg], 27 April 2010.</ref>
-According to a report extract dated 6 December 1937, in the files of the British [[Security Service]], Münzenberg was moving closer to the [[International Communist Oppostion]] at around this time:
+According to a report extract dated 6 December 1937, in the files of the British [[Security Service]], Münzenberg was moving closer to the [[International Communist Opposition]] at around this time:
 ::It is considered by [[Jay Lovestone|Lovestone]] that great headway is being made by the Paris Centre and it is worthy of note that, more particularly since the Comintern has been victimising Germans in the course of its heresy hunts, something approaching an understanding, or at all events a better understanding, has taken place between [[Heinz Brandler]] and Willi Muenzenberg, though there has, of course, been no suggestion of open co-operation. Willi Muenzenberg is at the moment by no means persona grat with Moscow.<ref>Exctract, Notes on the Communist Opposition Movement,  Sept.1935-Sept.1937, 6 December 1937, [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8162532&SearchInit=4&CATREF=KV2/580 KV2/580], National Archives.</ref>

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 Among those who worked for Münzenberg's station in the early months of World War Two, were [[Ernst Adam]] and [[Alexander Mass]], who would later become assistants to [[Sefton Delmer]] of Britain's [[Political Warfare Executive]].<ref>David Garnett, The Secret History of PWE: The Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945, St Ermin's Press, 2002, p.42.</ref>
-Münzenberg disappeared in France in June 1940, while fleeing the German advance.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.15.</ref> His boy was found in the woods outside the town of Montagne, near Grenoble, in October 1940. French officials quickly concluded the death was suicide, a verdict which has been questioned because of the absence of a note or distinctive injuries associated with what appeared to be a self-inflicted hanging.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.11.</ref>
+Münzenberg disappeared in France in June 1940, while fleeing the German advance.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.15.</ref> His body was found in the woods outside the town of Montagne, near Grenoble, in October 1940. French officials quickly concluded the death was suicide, a verdict which has been questioned because of the absence of a note or distinctive injuries associated with what appeared to be a self-inflicted hanging.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA played America, Harvard, 2008, p.11.</ref>
 ==Legacy==