The future (Paris)
The future was a Franco-German exile magazine with the subtitles Ein Neues Deutschland: Ein neue Europa , Organ of the Franco-German Union and Journal Anti-Hitlerien . It appeared in the period between the Munich Agreement in September 1938 and the German invasion of France in May 1940 in 81 large-format copies in Paris . The publisher was Willi Münzenberg , who received funding from Olof Aschberg and French politicians from the Freemason environment . The editors-in-chief were Arthur Koestler ,Hans Siemsen and Werner Thormann . Well-known authors and supporters of the magazine included: Ignazio Silone , Alfred Döblin , Thomas Mann , Manès Sperber , Sigmund Freud , Julien Benda , Aldous Huxley and Franz Werfel .
The historical publication is the subject of research in a joint project between the French National Archives in Paris and the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University in Bochum . The starting hypothesis of the research project is that the “future” was one of the most important anti-fascist media and at the same time the last unity movement of the anti-Hitler opposition before the outbreak of World War II
Individual evidence
- ^ Babette Gross: Willi Munzenberg. A political biography. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1967, p. 324.
- ↑ "The dream of Hitler's fall - before the Second World War ..." , web presentation of the Franco-German research project "The Future" (which was planned for two years in 2013)