Friends of the German People's Front in London

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The Committee of the Friends of the German People's Front in London (German: Freunde der deutschen Volksfront in London) was a London-based group of German anti-fascist exiles. In 1938 different German exile popular front friendship circles emerged in England, which in January 1939 merged into the Friends of the German People's Front with left-wing social democrat scholar Alfred Meusel as its chairman.[1][2][3][4] Jürgen Kuczynski was one of the organizers of the group.[5] Hans Mottek was a member of the group.[6] The Friends of the German People's Front had its office at 139c Finchley Road.[7]

The group published an English-language journal Germany Today (renamed Inside Nazi Germany in 1939), directed towards the British public.[3] Inside Nazi Germany came to be co-published between the Friends of the German People's Front and Heinrich Mann's Committee of the German Opposition.[4][8] The Friends of the German People's Front also issued a women's journal, Die Frau ('The Woman') in the first half of 1940.[3] Both Inside Nazi Germany and Die Frau ceased publication mid-1940, in part due to internment of German exiles (Die Frau later re-emerged as Frau in Arbeit, then the organ for the Sudeten German Gemeinschaft berufstätiger Frauen).[7]

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  1. ^ Michael Schneider (1999). Unterm Hakenkreuz: Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung 1933 bis 1939 (in German). Dietz. p. 1050. ISBN 978-3-8012-5025-6.
  2. ^ Klaus Mammach. Widerstand 1933-1939 : Geschichte der deutschen antifaschistischen Widerstandsbewegung im Inland und in der Emigration. Akademie-Verlag, 1984. p. 252
  3. ^ a b c Exile and Gender I: Literature and the Press. BRILL. 8 April 2016. p. 238. ISBN 978-90-04-31380-4.
  4. ^ a b H.G. Wells (24 May 2022). The Rights of Man: or, What Are We Fighting For?. Renard Press Ltd. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-1-913724-70-2.
  5. ^ Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss; Dieter Marc Schneider; Louise Forsyth (10 November 2011). Politik, Wirtschaft, Öffentliches Leben (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 400. ISBN 978-3-11-097028-9.
  6. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (24 June 2011). Menghin - Pötel (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 219. ISBN 978-3-11-094026-8.
  7. ^ a b Political Exile and Exile Politics in Britain after 1933. BRILL. 1 January 2011. pp. 87–88. ISBN 9789401200752.
  8. ^ Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service: Annual Cumulation, Volume 26. Public Affairs Information Service., 1940. pp. 12, 298
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