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Otto and Elise Hampel

They composed postcards denouncing Hitler's government and left them in public places around the city.

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Shortly after the end of the war, their Gestapo file was given to German novelist Hans Fallada, and their story inspired his now-classic 1947 novel translated into English and published in 2009 as Every Man Dies Alone (Alone in Berlin in the UK).

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Otto Hampel (June 21, 1897 – April 8, 1943) was born in Mühlbock, a suburb of Wehrau, now in Poland, but then part of Germany.

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