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... prisoners . For this purpose they were sum- moned to periodic confidential lectures and exhorted to keep up their guard . Major Trachtman , who in the laboratory maintained the friendliest relations with the prisoners , used to tell the ...
... prisoners . For this purpose they were sum- moned to periodic confidential lectures and exhorted to keep up their guard . Major Trachtman , who in the laboratory maintained the friendliest relations with the prisoners , used to tell the ...
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... prisoners . He had already detected a change of atmosphere in Butyrki . The newly sentenced prisoners he met there had almost all received twenty - five- year terms , which was virtually a life sentence . But far from cowing them ...
... prisoners . He had already detected a change of atmosphere in Butyrki . The newly sentenced prisoners he met there had almost all received twenty - five- year terms , which was virtually a life sentence . But far from cowing them ...
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... prisoners worked , complained that its quotas weren't being filled . The authorities ' next move was to force the prisoners to build a twelve- foot - high brick wall dividing the compound in half , but with a gate left in the middle ...
... prisoners worked , complained that its quotas weren't being filled . The authorities ' next move was to force the prisoners to build a twelve- foot - high brick wall dividing the compound in half , but with a gate left in the middle ...
Contents
Preface | 13 |
Acknowledgements | 21 |
1 OUT OF CHAOS AND SUFFERING | 25 |
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