Out of the NightStory of a German who worked as an agent for the Communists against the Nazis. |
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Page 179
I entered the prison in a mutinous mood , breathing and talking rebellion , and thinking of ways of escape . A man in prison is supposed to rot . Prisons are built to break men , and when a man is broken , society has consummated its ...
I entered the prison in a mutinous mood , breathing and talking rebellion , and thinking of ways of escape . A man in prison is supposed to rot . Prisons are built to break men , and when a man is broken , society has consummated its ...
Page 614
But the arrival of communists in the prisons plunged these former socialists into a dire dilemma . ... having entered the Nazi Party fraudulently turned these prison guards into helpless pawns in the hands of their communist charges .
But the arrival of communists in the prisons plunged these former socialists into a dire dilemma . ... having entered the Nazi Party fraudulently turned these prison guards into helpless pawns in the hands of their communist charges .
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Our prison organization did not even relinquish its hold on a comrade after his release . Many , after serving their sentences , were not released ; if the Gestapo considered them still dangerous , it sent them from prison straight to ...
Our prison organization did not even relinquish its hold on a comrade after his release . Many , after serving their sentences , were not released ; if the Gestapo considered them still dangerous , it sent them from prison straight to ...
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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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