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2 unusual facts about Wolfgang Döblin


Wolfgang Döblin

On June 21, Döblin shot himself in Housseras (a small village near Epinal), when German troops came in sight of the place.

Drafted in November 1938, after refusing to be exempted from military service, he had to stay in the active Army when World War II broke out in 1939, and was quartered at Givet, in the Ardennes, as a telephone operator.



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