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which was very active at that time. He frequented fashionable cafés such as the Arco and the
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sympathies developed in Vienna. Mobilized, injured on
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who was found hanged in a French forest. Various purges, liquidations and murders required by Stalin during the
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451:The Dangerous Otto Katz
391:Margarete Buber-Neumann
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364:German Communist Party
199:Early life and studies
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438:The Invisible Writing
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581:Otto Fischl
552:Prosecution
352:Franz Kafka
316:World War I
131:Mexico City
53:27 May 1895
758:Czech Jews
737:Categories
702:(executed)
693:Karel Šváb
689:(executed)
687:Otto Šling
683:(executed)
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421:References
368:Egon Kisch
224:Jistebnice
207:-speaking
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753:Comintern
675:Otto Katz
331:Thuringia
320:socialist
284:languages
228:historian
220:community
177:politburo
165:Comintern
139:Comintern
127:Hollywood
100:Otto Katz
23:Otto Katz
434:Koestler
356:Max Brod
327:Pössneck
257:movement
710:Related
409:in the
304:Russian
296:English
240:Hussite
108:aliases
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379:Berlin
375:Prague
347:Prague
300:French
288:German
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269:Prague
265:German
254:Jewish
247:reform
243:psalms
232:lawyer
217:Jewish
209:Jewish
205:German
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