Fritz Erpenbeck was a German writer, director and actor.
Erpenbeck in 1956
The National Committee for a Free Germany was an anti-fascist political and military organisation formed in the Soviet Union during World War II, composed mostly of German defectors from the ranks of
Fritz Erpenbeck
…1933, he emigrated to Prague, in 1935 to the Soviet Union with his wife. There he worked as an editor for various magazines and became a member of the National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD). As part of his work for the NKFD, he was deputy editor-in-chief of the NKFD broadcaster Freies Deutschland. Because of this function, he was…
Members of the NKFD, including Hans-Günther van Hooven, Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel, Karl Hetz, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Erich Weinert and Luitpold Steidle.
Colonel Hans-Günther van Hooven, photographed at the BDO foundation ceremony
NKFD headquarters c. 1943–1945, promising Friede, Freiheit, Brot ("Peace, Freedom and Bread," a callback to Lenin's slogan of "peace, land, and bread")
Grave of Lt. Horst Vieth [pl] killed in combat with Wehrmacht during the siege of Breslau