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