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L & 100-28212 This source reflects that Confidential National Defense informant” }\ GMMR, wo is acquainted with BRECHT personally, saw BRECET in ‘ioscow in T5S2, at which time BRECHT was phowing a picture with Communist tendencies ‘ entitled "Kuhlewampe." Informant stated that HANNS EISLER wrote the music I accompanying this picture, but that he could not be positive that he had seen f EISLER in Moscow at the time BRECHT was showing the picture. This picture had , as its subject the unemployed who lived in a tent colony near Berlin, according. to informant. i SOURCE This source reflects that in 1935 a literary magazrine entitled "Das Wort" (The iiord) was published it carried the signatures of BERT BRECHT, LION /FEUCHT:ANGER, and WI BREDEL as editors. This magatine was published by a group of political refugees who fled Germany after the Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933, to Russia. This group of political refugees included many Communist deputies and writers, some of whom were leaders in the Camunist Party of Germany. LION FEUCHTWANGER is know to this office as a Gernan refugee writer with comnunistic sympathies, presently in the Los Angeles area and collaborating with BERT BRECHT and HANNS EISL"R in the Free German novament. FR ee ee Concerning “ILLI BREDEL, available information reflects that in 1925 | he participated in a Communist revolt in Hamburg, Germany, and in 1928 he be- | came editor of the organ of the Communists in Hamburg, “Hamburg People’s Nevws- t paper.” After Hitler came to power he was put into a concentration camp for a year or more. During the Spanish Civil War he fought in the International | Brigade. He is presently a member of the Free German Committee in Noscow, 1 and articles prepared by him appear in “Freies Deutschland,” the official organ of the Free German movement emanating from ifexioo. -~ source > This source reflects that BERT BRCHT's play, "Die Mutter,” was presented in New York City in 1935. A review of this play, which is contained in the book entitled "Bracht, Gessumelte Werke, Volume 2," discloses that it contains material favoring Communism, specifically those songs contained in this play entitled "Praise of Communisn® and "Praise of the Revolutionary.* Explanatory material published together with this play in the above-mentioned book reflects that the New York Daily worker for November 22, 1955, stated regard tp “Die Mutter"; "It was BRECHT's plan to have a spectacle pre the dramtiec story of the present day mass struggle which must culminate ks the vistery ef the proletariat. ® ae ry t J tL