DOI:10.1086/239912
Willi Münzenberg's German Communist Propaganda Empire 1921-1933
@article{Gruber1966WilliMG,
title={Willi M{\"u}nzenberg's German Communist Propaganda Empire 1921-1933},
author={Helmut Gruber},
journal={The Journal of Modern History},
pages={278 - 297}
H. Gruber
Published 1 September 1966
The Journal of Modern History
FOR the Comintern in general and the German Communist party (KPD) in particular, the need for a farflung propaganda empire in the Weimar Republic presented a grave dilemma symbolized most dramatically in the person of Willi Miinzenberg. On the one hand, such an empire could and did offer a rival to that of the right-wing nationalist, Alfred Hugenberg, who was waging a brilliantly successful campaign to win the uncommitted and unorganized, the young and inexperienced, the unemployed and…
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