Hi there Gary, > > 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.
Can't find anything of that exact name. In 1933 Heinrich Mann became "Ehrenvorsitzender" of the new "Schutzverband Deutscher Schriftsteller", in 1934 he became President of the "Freiheitsbibliothek" in Paris in rememberance of the Buecherverbrennung a year earlier. The aim was to collect the burnt works. In 1935 there was an "Internationaler Schriftsteller-Kongress zur Verteidigung der Kultur" , where Mann appeared as a speaker and received the standing ovations of 5-6000 people in the hall.... From 1935 on he was the "Vorsitzender eines Ausschusses zur Gruendung einer deutschen Volksfront." Together with people like the Social Democrat Rudolf Breitscheid (who died in a KZ) and the Communists Wilhelm Pieck and Walter Ulbricht (the "fathers" of the GDR) he signed a petition "Bildet die deutsche Volksfront! Fuer Frieden, Freiheit und Brot!" that led to nothing. In March 1939 he again tried to get an "Aktionsausschuss von antifaschistischinnen Emigranten" going that was undermined by the German-Russian "Nichtangriffspakt" later that year. (This is from a book called "Heinrich Mann. Bilder und Dokumente." by Wilfried F. Schoeller (Munich 1991) I hope it helps a little...) Greetings from Berlin Olaf btw could somebody help me out with the year of publication of Volumes II, III and XV of the "Saemtliche Werke"? That would save me a trip to the library... TIA. -- Olaf Schroeter __________________________________________________ mailto:[email protected]
