Erica Wallach

German political activist Date Of Birth : 1922-02-19T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1993-12-21T00:00:00Z

Erica Wallach (1923 – 22 December 1993) was a German political activist and teacher. A strong opponent of totalitarianism in Europe, she was held in a Soviet prison for five years during the peak of the Cold War due to suspicions of espionage. Wallach fought against military dictatorship in Spain, Nazism in Germany, and authoritarian communism in the Soviet Union. She published the memoir Light at Midnight in 1967.

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