Out of the NightStory of a German who worked as an agent for the Communists against the Nazis. |
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The Fjord pilot came aboard , guzzled nearly half a bottle of the Pioner's cognac , and brought both ships safely to the ramshackle pier of a lumber mill in the village of Muruviken . We learned that the waterfront workers along the ...
The Fjord pilot came aboard , guzzled nearly half a bottle of the Pioner's cognac , and brought both ships safely to the ramshackle pier of a lumber mill in the village of Muruviken . We learned that the waterfront workers along the ...
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They brought me to a police station in St. Pauli , Hamburg's Coney Island . As they led me through the streets , shackled , people assembled from nowhere and stared . A grunted command from a Gestapo man sufficed to disperse them .
They brought me to a police station in St. Pauli , Hamburg's Coney Island . As they led me through the streets , shackled , people assembled from nowhere and stared . A grunted command from a Gestapo man sufficed to disperse them .
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A pretty waitress brought me a meal on a black steel tray . I squatted on the floor and ate wolfishly . Later in the afternoon a tailor arrived to take my measurements . I was escorted to a bathroom , from there to a barber shop ...
A pretty waitress brought me a meal on a black steel tray . I squatted on the floor and ate wolfishly . Later in the afternoon a tailor arrived to take my measurements . I was escorted to a bathroom , from there to a barber shop ...
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| Title | Out of the Night |
| Author | Jan Valtin |
| Publisher | Alliance Book Corporation, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2010 |
| Length | 749 pages |
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