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Ernst Toller

1893–1939 · 20th century

Ernst Toller was a German expressionist playwright and pacifist who led the first council government of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in April 1919 and then commanded part of its Red Army. After its fall he was sentenced to five years in prison, where he wrote plays such as Masse Mensch. Exiled by the Nazis in 1933, he died in New York in 1939.

Ernst Toller
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Bavarian Soviet Republic

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