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Kurt Nelhiebel, born in Bohemia in 1927, became a journalist and author for Radio Bremen after the Second World War and his expulsion from his “old homeland of northern Bohemia”. Born at the time of the Great Depression, as the son of a German anti-fascist he experienced the rise of the Sudeten German Nazis, the occupation of his homeland by Hitler's Wehrmacht and subsequently the terror of the National Socialist regime. As a soldier, he experienced the horrors of war during the fighting in Berlin and was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets. He managed to escape shortly before the end of the war and made his way back to his homeland. There he narrowly escaped being shot by Czech security forces. A letter from his father, identifying him as the son of an opponent of Hitler, saved his life.

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