Out of the NightStory of a German who worked as an agent for the Communists against the Nazis. |
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Page 288
I was not the only one who had been arrested for engineering the mass mutiny in German shipping . From information whispered by the prisoner who distributed our food , and from a constant surf of yells that came from hundreds of cell ...
I was not the only one who had been arrested for engineering the mass mutiny in German shipping . From information whispered by the prisoner who distributed our food , and from a constant surf of yells that came from hundreds of cell ...
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Secret instructions were dispatched to all unit leaders , ordering the seizure of the next opportunity to provoke a mass slaughter between the storm troops and the workers . A great number of killed working people , it was hoped , would ...
Secret instructions were dispatched to all unit leaders , ordering the seizure of the next opportunity to provoke a mass slaughter between the storm troops and the workers . A great number of killed working people , it was hoped , would ...
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If we don't come to real mass actions before March , it'll be too late , " I said . " Too late for what ? " " For an offensive . " Wollweber growled , " It is not too late . Too early , rather . We shall leave the initiative to Hitler .
If we don't come to real mass actions before March , it'll be too late , " I said . " Too late for what ? " " For an offensive . " Wollweber growled , " It is not too late . Too early , rather . We shall leave the initiative to Hitler .
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User Review - Hurtgen - LibraryThingThe son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic ... Read full review
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| Title | Out of the Night |
| Author | Jan Valtin |
| Publisher | Alliance Book Corporation, 1941 |
| Length | 749 pages |
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