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Leopold Trepper The Soviet border guards were captured semi clothed as they stumbled half-awake out of their barracks. The German Army Propagandakompanien (PR) photographers caught the dazed look on their shocked faces as they stood with hands raised in the watery spring dawn. They were the victims of Stalin’s willful determination not to believe the evidence of his intelligence services…

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