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At a certain point, the area where Buchenwald and Weimar were, which had been under American occupation, had to be turned over to the Soviets, as it was to become a part of the future German Democratic Republic. So the people at the sanatorium were asked where they wanted to go. ‘Go to France or to Sweden,’ we were told, ‘the Red Cross will take care of you.’
Then a doctor I had met in the camp, a Transylvanian Communist who’s still alive and is a good friend of mine, came from Buchenwald to Blankenheim and told me: ‘You have to come home; like the Communists say, we’ve got a new world to build.’ And so I came home. It was only several years later that I began to read Marxist theoretical works and form an idea about what Communism was.
Then a doctor I had met in the camp, a Transylvanian Communist who’s still alive and is a good friend of mine, came from Buchenwald to Blankenheim and told me: ‘You have to come home; like the Communists say, we’ve got a new world to build.’ And so I came home. It was only several years later that I began to read Marxist theoretical works and form an idea about what Communism was.
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Germany
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Miklos Kallos