ABSTRACT
That very afternoon, the police swooped on the man and threw him into prison where they kept him behind bars until 14 April 1942. This proved a fateful day for the socialist, who found himself hauled before a summary military tribunal. The army judges gave him short shrift and-on the basis of the denunciation, a few vague witness statements and a report from the village mayor that did no more than echo the widow’s allegations-condemned him, as his denouncer had every reason to believe they probably would, to twenty years in prison.1
