Re: [Cz-L] The Genesis of Paul Celan's "Todesfuge"

Thank you Galina.
Hedwig's Email cleared up the confusion and I should learn not to
jump to conclusions.

Mimi
On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Galina Kharaz wrote:

> Dear Mimi,
> here is the text from Wikipedia about Leon Blum:
>
> In April 1943, the occupying Government had Blum imprisoned in
> Buchenwald in the section reserved for high-ranking prisoners. His
> future wife, Janot Blum, chose to come to the camp voluntarily to live
> with him inside the camp. As the Allied armies approached Buchenwald,
> he was transferred to Dachau, near Munich, and in late April 1945,
> together with other notable inmates, to Tyrol. In the last weeks of
> the war the Nazi regime gave orders that he was to be
> executed[citation needed], but the local authorities decided not to
> obey them. Blum was rescued by Allied troops in May 1945. While in
> prison he wrote his best known work, the essay À l'échelle Humaine
> ("On a human scale").
>
> Sincerely,
> Galina.

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