Talk:Willi Münzenberg
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[edit] Tunnels
"In particular, Tobias revealed that the “secret tunnels’ that supposedly allowed the Nazis to enter and leave the Reichstag unseen never existed."
There were actually tunnels connecting Goering's and the Reichstag. It's funny to see Tobias quoted as reliable. Wintceas 01:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
- Somebody messed up. Tobias says no such thing about tunnels not existing, but rather reveals the tunnels were for water piping, and were quite unusable for allowing people to enter the Reichstag, and that Münzenberg misrepresented the water tunnels as something that they were not.--72.142.243.241 07:54, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Murder
"It is generally believed that Münzenberg was murdered by the NKVD, the successor to the Soviet secret police service with which Münzenberg had once worked." Is there any supporting evidence for this conclusion?130.238.5.5 20:40, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
It doesn't seem like there is, so I went ahead and fixed it.130.238.5.5 21:24, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- "Munzenberg had been arrested and held in an internment camp in southern France until the summer of 1940, when he was released and walked away in the company of two "German Socialists." He soon was found hanged from a tree near Grenoble. The man who knew the most about Russian disinformation operations had been silenced."[1]Nobs01 21:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- The article referenced is titled "The famed critical theorist is widely believed to have committed suicide while fleeing the Nazis. Was he actually murdered by Stalin's agents?" This is not very reasonable. The author also doesn't give any source for his quotation concerning Münzenberg.130.238.5.5 22:39, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I forgot to say that the critical theorist is Walter Benjamin. Also it is an obsession with right-wing writers to blame the deaths of leftist on the Soviet Union - psychologically it is because they were rejected by their own leftist groups, cf. eg. David Horowitz.
- The record appears to be no one knows who committed the murder (and the killing does appear to be terroristic in nature, i.e. he was made an example of). The quote appears to be a reference to the last time he was seen alive; this needs to be sourced. Nobs01 00:26, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- The article referenced is titled "The famed critical theorist is widely believed to have committed suicide while fleeing the Nazis. Was he actually murdered by Stalin's agents?" This is not very reasonable. The author also doesn't give any source for his quotation concerning Münzenberg.130.238.5.5 22:39, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Arthur Koestler
The Arthur Koestler article mentions WM a couple of times, is it possible to get further information on their relationship?--MacRusgail 12:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Death Date June or October?
Shouldn't the date of Münzenberg's death be changed? Münzenberg's body was discovered on October 21, but by that time, he had been dead for quite some time. The last time anybody saw Münzenberg alive was on June 21, 1940, so I would suggest that the date of his death be changed to June 1940. --A.S. Brown 19:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
