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...commercial artist), and chatted daily with the Germans (harmlessly, he says). He soon learned that the Germans had succeeded in capturing Allied agents' radio sets and cutting them into the British network, but he was never able to warn London. After the invasion he was packed off to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Starr admits that because he never managed to alert his superiors, he failed to win his double game; his bosses hint that because he talked to the Germans he lost it. But the disconcerting fact is that Starr offers at least partial British corroboration of a recent German...
...Knock on the Door. In 1940, just before Christmas, there came the ineviable knock on the door. At the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, the Nazis knocked out Grüber's front teeth. At Dachau, they threw his body on a pile of corpses after a heart attack had left him more dead than alive...
...became the man in the middle. The Western press attacked him when, after a visit to Communist-run Sachsenhausen, he announced that the inmates received better food and treatment than under the Nazis. But soon after his visit, 15,000 prisoners in Soviet zone concentration camps were released in an amnesty credited to Grüber; another Grüber-inspired amnesty is said to be imminent...
...Reds put him into the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which like Buchenwald was taken over from the Nazis; to this day the Reds still use both. For five years Hans Klose, along with 60,000 other prisoners in Sachsenhausen, slept on a wooden pallet 2-ft. wide (if one man in the row turned in discomfort, all had to turn). He lost his teeth and got tuberculosis. He was never tried, got no hearing, was charged with nothing. Then, on Jan. 27, 1950, the Russians abruptly told him that he was a free...
Which Dictatorship Was Worse? One wreck of a man slowly unfolded a story of seven years' suffering under two dictatorships. The Nazis had thrown him into Sachsenhausen in 1943 for listening to foreign broadcasts. Released in 1945, he headed for home in Schleswig-Holstein. Somewhere along the road, the Russians seized him again, sent him back to Sachsenhausen. In nine years of marriage, he had lived with his wife for only eight months. "God only knows if I'll find her," he said, "or what I'll find...