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Gottfried's Letters — 22.10.34

John Ganz
May 10, 2022
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In 1934, my cousin Gottfried Ballin was arrested for involvement in an anti-Nazi resistance cell in Cologne. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit high treason, imprisoned, and eventually deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. His letters from the prisons and concentration camps where he was held have been collected and I’m attempting to trans…

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