Bertolt Brecht

 In 1898 Brecht was born in Germany and served as a medical or-dally he didn't believe in war but he did the incredibly dangerous and selfless task as working as a medical or-dally in the First World War. The injuries and horrors he had seen was beyond anything they have ever seen; horrific injuries appalled by war in all its forms. His work was kind of protest against war.

After the war he moved to Berlin to pursue a life in theatre.

                                             

In 1933 the Nazi's came in power and at this point he fled and decided that he wasn't going to survive if he stayed. He was a communist (left wing) and he knew that he would get into a lot of trouble for his opposing view to the Nazi's.    

In 1941 he became a resident in the US and in 1947 the Americans had him up in court for being a communist as they hated communist as well. He died in 1956.