More info somewhere in books etc? The Innocents´clubs

[SIZE=12pt]The ‘Innocents' Clubs’[/SIZE]



[SIZE=10.5pt]Willi Münzenburg, , built up his "Münzenburg group" during the Weimar period with numerous daily and weekly newspapers, film corporations and book clubs, including Welt am Abend, Berlin am Morgen and Arbeiter-Illustrierte. Residing in Paris in 1933, he became the propaganda chief of the [/SIZE][SIZE=10.5pt]Comintern[/SIZE][SIZE=10.5pt] using the cover name: "International Aid Committee for the Victims of Fascism."

Willi Münzenburg was born in 1888.

During the First World War Münzenburg was a young left-wing radical living in Switzerland. Talent-spotted by Trotsky he soon became part of the Bolshevik circle around Lenin, as they waited their opportunity to return to a revolutionary Russia. It was to Münzenburg that Lenin turned as the famous sealed train left Zurich for Russia in 1917. "Six months from now we will either be in power or hanging from the gallows" he said.

During the 1920's and most of the 1930's Münzenburg played a leading role in the [/SIZE][SIZE=10.5pt]Comintern[/SIZE][SIZE=10.5pt].

Most of this army of workers in what Münzenburg called 'Innocents' Clubs' had no idea they were working for Stalin. They were led to believe that they were advancing the cause of a sort of socialist humanism.

Every year a new cohort of impressionable students join groups like the Anti-Nazi League believing them to be benign opponents of oppression, rather than the Trotskyite fronts they really are. The old tricks certainly are the best!

Münzenburg's right-hand man, Otto Katz, established an Anti-Nazi League in Hollywood, placing the writer Dorothy Parker in charge as celebrity window-dressing. The novelist Thomas Mann was one of the few to detect a swindle, although it took him five years to grasp the realities.

As in all the Western countries in which 'the Münzenburg men' extended their networks, the 'innocents' believed that they were working to oppose Hitler. In reality the purpose was the undermine the West and pave the way for Soviet control.[/SIZE]

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Cheers.

Anyone have read the book,perhaps?