Egon Kisch
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Egon Erwin Kisch was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He styled himself Der rasende Reporter for his countless travels to the far corners of the globe a
Kisch in Sydney, 1934
Kisch (far right) in Der Roter Helfer, April 1927
Willi Münzenberg set up a multitude of Communist Front organizations sending Egon Kisch to promote Comintern propaganda throughout the world
Kisch on board the Strathaird bound for Australia, November 1934
Willi Münzenberg
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Wilhelm Münzenberg was a German communist activist and publisher who served as the first head of the Young Communist International from 1919 to 1921 and as a member of the Reichstag from 1924 to 1933.
Egon Kisch
…of the communist international and a senior figure in the publishing empire of the West European branch of the Comintern run by communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg. In 1928 Kisch was one of the founders of the Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors. Through the late twenties and early thirties, Kisch…
Münzenberg c. 1924
Portrait by Isaak Brodsky, 1920
Münzenberg sent Czechoslovak writer Egon Kisch to Australia, where he addressed a crowd of 18,000 in Sydney's Domain, telling Australians of his firsthand experience with the dangers of Hitler's Nazi regime.
Münzenberg (center) with James W. Ford (left) and Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté at the Second League Against Imperialism Congress, 1929