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Word: heiligenstadt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Need. At Besenhausen, German officials had received a list of 200 refugees ready for transfer from a Soviet zone camp at Heiligenstadt. Only 101 of the 200 were on the "Link" lists. Allied officials asked the East German authorities to send the 101 to the crossing point. But the Communists, for reasons of their own, sent nearly 300. Said a British official: "I'll take all that are on my list. That's all I can do. I'll send for another list to try to take care of the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bureaucratic Bottleneck | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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