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Southampton. This file documents the
Security Service's involvement in the case. The earliest traces of Eisler in the file (KV 2/2773, 1936–1949) date from 1936, when Comintern efforts to secure a false American passport in the name of Edwards were reported. In 1947 information obtained from Eisler's former wife, Hedwiga Messing, suggested that Eisler had used this cover name in New York in 1934.
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Chamber. In the course of the establishment of the SED rule, he informed his colleagues at the party executive committee meeting on October 4, 1949 that, as Marxists, they must know: “If we found a government, we will never give it up again, neither through elections nor
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Massing saw Eisler on his return to the Soviet Union: "Gerhart… was involved in the
Wittdorf affair, a political maneuver to dethrone Ernst Thälmann, who was supported by Stalin…. Gerhart was, after a time, in complete isolation in Moscow, forbidden to read German papers in order to get Germany out
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Eisler, who was supposed by many to be the covert leader and director of the
Communist Party in America during and after the Second World War, became the centre of a diplomatic incident in 1949 when, having stowed away on a Polish ship out of New York, he was forcibly removed and arrested in
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bound for London in early May 1949. He was discovered by the crew only after the ship was at sea. Once in
England, he was dragged off the ship by his hands and feet; the authorities allowed him to leave for the
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of his system, and then sent as
Comintern representative to China where, according to many reports, he achieved great success through his ruthless policy. He stepped back into Stalin's favor."
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of the GDR, and from 1967 he was a member of the
Central Committee of the SED. There he was one of the most innovative leading figures in the GDR media apparatus: for example, he set up the
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Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States,
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hosted a dinner party for Eisler the night before he stowed away on the
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released on 4 March 2008 included information about Gerhart Eisler. The
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Hans Eisler, Eine Biographie in Texten, Bildern und Dokumenten
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Wir reden hier nicht von Napoleon: Wir reden von Ihnen!
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Wir reden hier nicht von Napoleon: Wir reden von Ihnen!
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The Cold War Romance of Lillian Hellman and John Melby
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860:Auf der Hauptstraße der Weltgeschichte
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237:and his sister was Communist activist
46:Gerhart Eisler in 1949 in East Germany
233:His brother was the leftist composer
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