Word: buber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNDER Two DICTATORS (331 pp.)-Margarete Buber-Dodd, Meac...
Deadly Parallel. "I could have flung my arms round his neck and kissed him," writes Author Buber. Under Two Dictators is her story of the seven brutal years behind barbed wire that led up to that first moment of freedom. Taken separately, Part I ("Soviet Concentration Camp, Karaganda") and Part II ("Nazi Concentration Camp, Ravensbrück") will be familiar reading to those who have conscientiously suffered through the tales of terror told by other survivors of NKVD or Gestapo imprisonment. Taken together, the two parts balance the scales in a deadly parallel never before made by a victim...
Margarete Buber, once a Communist who could point to an eleven-year record of toeing the party line, began to get into trouble with the U.S.S.R. in 1931. That year, her common-law husband, top-ranking German Communist Leader Heinz Neumann, dared to say no when Stalin asked: "Don't you think that if [Naziism] came to power in Germany it would be so much taken up in the West that the Soviet Union could develop in peace and build up Socialism?" Booted out of his high party post, Neumann was assigned to a round of minor party chores...