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‘Hunger Angel’ by Herta Müller

By Rayyan Al-Shawaf

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 03, 2012

One normally thinks of Germans as the ones who sent others to labor camps in World War II. But after that conflict, millions of ethnic Germans fled or were expelled from Eastern Europe by the Soviets and their allies, with a couple hundred thousand consigned to Soviet labor camps. The story, narrated by an aged Leo Auberg looking back on a five-year ordeal he endured 60 years ago, examines the grim situation in a civilian labor camp next to a coal plant.

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