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A Life Sentence Which Surprised Even the Communists

Item based on interviews conducted with defectors and immigrants in Western refugee camps and immigration offices, or Western travelers returning from stays in East European communist countries, supplemented with information collected through Radio Free Europe (RFE) correspondence with anonymous sou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL Research Institute)
Institution:	Open Society Archives at Central European University
Format:	TEXT
Language:	German
Published:	1953-04-14T00:00:00Z-1953-04-14T23:59:59Z
Subjects:	[Radio Free Europe. News and Information Service, Radio Free Europe] [Migrations/Migrant movements, Political Prisioners/Political trials, Education, State and Administrative activities, Housing, Occupation/Resistance movements, Concentration camps/Internment camps/Forced labor camps, Culture, Media and Arts, Exiles/Political refugees, Health, Transformation of industrial and agricultural issues] Czechoslovakia Vienna (Austria) archiveUnit
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:edaca01c-4c53-468c-a878-cccf1c7d329e

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