[6] The goal of the magazine was to become a literary organ of German exiles who left Germany after the Nazi rule.

[7] However, it did not pay attention to the discussions about the controversial forms of experimentalism common in German expressionism and early modernism.

[6] In these writings Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch and Hanns Eisler defended expressionism against György Lukács and Mikhail Bakhtin.

[6] In the poems and fictions published in Das Wort the contributors argued that their true heimat was the Soviet Union.

[2] Some parts of Bertolt Brecht's play entitled Furcht und Elend des III were first featured in the magazine.