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Brecht's feelings about war cast in new light by emergence of teenage poems

by Alison Flood

Two newly attributed poems find Brecht, a writer later known for his trenchantly anti-war views, in surprisingly patriotic formTwo poems showing a teenage Bertolt Brecht urging "real German men, of steel and iron" to resist a world "standing stiffly against us" have been attributed to the author for the first time, casting a new light on a poet and playwright better known for the trenchantly anti-war views he held in…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:30am on January 28, 2014