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investigators in 1963 that
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and arbitrary killing of prisoner witnesses. He was one of two
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camps. These valuables were stored and processed at
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in 1917, during which he impregnated a
Russian woman, and was allowed to return to Germany after the child was born in May 1918. His child, a son named Walter, was raised by his parents.
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prisoners of war, he had three well-known communist
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