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page 203 note 1) The term “persecution” as used here encompasses imprisonment, numerous arrests, deprivation of livelihood, indirectly or directly, or exile.

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page 205 note 1) Similar surveys of SPD parliamentarians of the Weimar period and of those in the Bonn Bundestag are being prepared by the author.