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Beyond the Berlin Wall as told to Erika Von Hornstein

Published by Oswald Wolff,London, 1962. Stories related by migrants at the Marienfelde reception camp which was right on the border of the GDR at the south end of West Berlin. An old Berlin map shows another reception camp,but not this one, at Spandauerstr, Staaken (Fluchtlingsheim).

The author was born in Potsdam according to the dustjacket, and her husband's paper mill was dismantled in the SMAD and then rebuilt. Material was gathered in 1959 for this book, published in Germany in 1960 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Koeln. . This english edition 1962, printed by the Garden City Press, Letchworth.

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Uploaded on September 8, 2009
Taken on September 9, 2009