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.
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
Kim Philby
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Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that had divulg
Willi Münzenberg
…hundred books and many more pamphlets between 1933 and 1936. It has been suggested that during his years in exile, Münzenberg had some role in recruiting Kim Philby to work for the Soviet Union, but there is no clear evidence. The argument for the theory is that Philby was recruited to work for Soviet intelligence…
Philby in 1955
Philby on a 1990 Soviet stamp