Out of the NightAlliance Book Corporation, 1941 - 749 pages Story of a German who worked as an agent for the Communists against the Nazis. |
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Page 547
... cells were ten feet long and five wide . Beyond a low iron cot and a battered toilet seat , they contained nothing . Heavy steel doors opened on narrow tiers . Each cell had a small barred window , seven feet above the floor , and the ...
... cells were ten feet long and five wide . Beyond a low iron cot and a battered toilet seat , they contained nothing . Heavy steel doors opened on narrow tiers . Each cell had a small barred window , seven feet above the floor , and the ...
Page 589
... cell door . The cells on the Totenreihe all bore the sign : " Sachen herausnehmen . Nacht- licht . " All night the electric lights were left burning . Every eve- ning all my clothes were taken away from me for the night . The trial ...
... cell door . The cells on the Totenreihe all bore the sign : " Sachen herausnehmen . Nacht- licht . " All night the electric lights were left burning . Every eve- ning all my clothes were taken away from me for the night . The trial ...
Page 602
... cell , live flesh and blood and voice ; and I could take a dull book and spend a long Sunday translating portions of it into English or French , or training my memory by learning the dullest passages by heart . I came to the conclusion ...
... cell , live flesh and blood and voice ; and I could take a dull book and spend a long Sunday translating portions of it into English or French , or training my memory by learning the dullest passages by heart . I came to the conclusion ...
Contents
SAILORS WAY | 18 |
STRIKE OUT | 33 |
SMUGGLING FOR THE COMINTERN | 45 |
Copyright | |
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