Workers International Relief
The Workers International Relief (WIR) — also known as Internationale Arbeiter-Hilfe (IAH) in German and as Международная рабочая помощь in Russian — was an adjunct of the Communist International initially formed to channel relief from international working class organizations and communist parties to famine-stricken Soviet Russia. The organization, based in Berlin, later produced films and coordinated propaganda efforts on behalf of the USSR.
The national sections of WIR, such as the "Friends of Soviet Russia" in the US, provided aid to Soviet Russia and assisted in getting the Soviets' message out to the West.
Wilhelm Münzenberg was a German Communist political activist and publisher.
Willi Münzenberg (undated)
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.