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There was method in the sentences, concludes Author Buber. "Apart from security measures against. .. elements which are supposed to be socially unreliable, the GPU [NKVD] is a great slave trust. Wherever labor is needed, the GPU sends its prisoners . . . Clearly, under such circumstances the GPU is not sparing in its arrests...
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...
...State," and refused to give her a trial, but demanded that she sign a confession anyhow. Not knowing what to confess, she refused-and drew a five-year sentence in Siberia as a "socially dangerous element." Among the starved, louse-bitten, work-weary inmates of Karaganda concentration camp, Comrade Buber lost her last illusions about the Kremlin dictatorship. One early incident was enlightening: when she asked for a "reopening" of her case, she was tossed into a punishment compound...
While Comrade Buber worked at shoveling dung or weeding fields, her fellow inmates died around her in droves-by suicide, or of malnutrition or disease. Then one day in 1940, Stalin played his final joker on his German Communist prisoners: as a symbol of solidarity under the Nazi-Soviet pact, he turned scores of them over to Hitler, who lost no time in throwing them into concentration camps. Hardly a handful was still alive by April...