![Bertolt Brecht, author of the "Threepenny Opera" and a well-known leftist poet and dramatist, who emigrated from Germany in 1933. [LCID: 01441]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/99c0eca5-fa2e-45e8-87b2-9147edef644f.jpg)
Bertolt Brecht, author of the "Threepenny Opera" and a well-known leftist poet and dramatist, who emigrated from Germany in 1933. In exile, he co-edited an anti-Nazi magazine titled Das Wort. London, Great Britain, 1936.
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