Jew Corrupter: Communist Jew Willi Münzenberg

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Willi Münzenberg

Willi Münzenberg (14 August 1889, Erfurt  – June 1940, Saint-Marcellin, France) was a communist political activist. 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. He was a leading propagandist for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Era, but later grew disenchanted with Communism due to Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s.
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Early years

Willi Münzenberg was born 14 August 1889 in Erfurt, Thuringia the son of a tavern keeper, Münzenberg grew up in poverty. As a young man, he became involved with trade unions and in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Following the SPD split in 1914 between the moderate majority (known as the Majority SPD, MSPD) and the radical minority (known as the Independent SPD, USPD) over the issue of the First World War, Münzenberg sided with the Independent faction.

During World War I, Münzenberg often visited Vladimir Lenin at his home in Zurich, Switzerland . In 1918, Münzenberg was a founding member of the KPD.

Münzenberg was also the head of the Young Communist International and was the delegate of the YCI to the 2nd World Congress of the Communist International in 1920.[1]

Political career

In 1924, Münzenberg was elected to the Reichstag, and served as a member until the banning of the KPD in 1933. Münzenberg was one of the few KPD leaders of working-class origin, a fact that was a source of immense pride for Münzenberg.

During the Weimar period, Münzenberg earned the reputation of a brilliant propagandist. His first major success was an effort to raise money and food for the victims of the Russian famine of 1921. In 1924 he launched Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung, which became the most widely-read socialist pictorial newspaper in Germany. In addition, Münzenberg worked closely with the Comintern and the Soviet secret police (known as the Cheka between 1917–22 and as the OGPU 1922–34) to advance the communist cause internationally.

Münzenberg founded a number of front organizations such the World League Against Imperialism, the International Worker's Relief Fund, and the International Labor Defense, to propagate communist ideas. He instructed his assistant, fellow Comintern agent Otto Katz, to travel to the United States to garner support for various pro-Soviet and anti-Nazi causes (Katz would later found the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League with Dorothy Parker).[2][3] In order to obfuscate the origins of his operations, Münzenberg created numerous front organizations to control other front organizations. Western and fascist intelligence agencies generally referred to all of these organizations as the "Münzenberg Trust". In addition, Münzenberg used these front organizations to make business investments - Münzenberg liked to live in high style and was popularly known as "The Red Millionaire".

After directing the Comintern's handling of the Sacco and Vanzetti case in 1925, Münzenberg became in charge of the League Against Imperialism, created in Brussels in 1927. He then achieved his greatest success with the Counter-trial he organized in London in which he blamed the Reichstag fire on the Nazis. During the Counter-trial, Münzenberg and his staff manufactured most of the evidence that he claimed proved that the Nazis had set the Reichstag on fire. In 1933 and in 1934, the "Münzenberg Trust" published two best-selling books, The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror and its sequel, the Second Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire. The two Brown Books were widely accepted as fact by historians until 1960 when the journalist Fritz Tobias exposed numerous inaccuracies and false information in the Brown Books. As an example, Tobias revealed that the "secret tunnels' that supposedly allowed the Nazis to enter and leave the Reichstag unseen were in fact tunnels for water piping.

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Münzenberg lived intermittently in Paris, France from 1933 to 1940. It has been suggested that during his years in exile, Münzenberg may have had some role in recruiting Kim Philby to work for the Soviet Union, but there is no clear evidence for this. The argument for this theory is that Philby was recruited to work for Soviet intelligence through one of the "Münzenberg Trust"'s front organizations, the World Society for the Relief of the Victims of German Fascism based in Paris.

Münzenberg sent Czech writer Egon Kisch to Australia where he addressed a crowd of 18,000 in Sydney's Domain telling Australians of his first hand experience with the dangers of Hitler's Nazi regime.

In 1934 Münzenberg's influence reached the antipodes when his Comintern machine sent Egon Kisch to the All-Australian Conference of the Movement Against War and Fascism (an Australian Communist Party Front organization). What could have been a low key visit from an unknown Czech writer quickly polarized Australian society when the Conservative Lyons government declared Kisch as "undesirable as an inhabitant of, or visitor to, the Commonwealth" and attempted to exclude Kisch from Australia. Unable to produce any legal proof that Kisch was a communist, the government case collapsed and Kisch became a popular speaker disseminating Münzenberg's Comintern message. However attempts to foster a United Front against fascism in Australia eventually came to nothing.

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