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Christian and Elizabeth went on to have four children: Elisabeth Auguste (1915–2003), married in 1949 with Jacques Olivgetti (div. in 1956) ; Richard Christian (1917–1985), married in 1953 with Maria Lafontaine ; Waldemar (1919–2002), married in 1952 with Ellen Hamilton (two
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