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Word: sternau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marion Blom, Lodi van Bennekom and Ruud Sternau, three young Netherlanders, found that out the hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: People-Smuggling | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Only the Naive. Her two compatriots were not so fortunate. Van Bennekom and Sternau are still in an East German prison. Their story was much the same as Marion's. After reaching an agreement in Amsterdam with Huivenaar, they were taken to West Berlin last April, introduced to Loeffler for final instructions, then taken to East Berlin. There, at the Hotel Sofia, they gave their passports to one of Loeffler's accomplices, who passed them on. When the two Dutch boys reported to police that their passports had been lost, they were arrested immediately, because the documents already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: People-Smuggling | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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