Margarete Buber-Neumann had the double misfortune of being incarcerated both in Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany. Soon after her release at the end of the war, she wrote an account of her experiences that was published in German and Swedish, translated into English as Under Two Dictators in 1949, then published in more than ten other languages before being revised by the author in the 1960s. This new edition was instigated by Buber-Neumann's daughter.

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