what am I missing? Bertolt Brecht lived and died in Germany :
Born
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
10 February 1898
Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire
Died
14 August 1956 (aged 58)
East Berlin, East Germany
is he talking about a different one ?P.
Immigrated to the US in 1941 and left in 1947 after testifying in front of HUA concerning communism in the U.S.