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Let me go back, very rapidly, to when Fritz Houtermans was transferred to the Gestapo prison at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. After a few days one of the fellow-prisoners was informed that he would be released pretty soon. The news produced a considerable excitement among the prisoners and many of them gave the fortunate fellow messages for relatives and friends to be communicated as soon as he was out of prison. Fritz gave him the name of an old friend and colleague at the Technische Hochschule, with the recommendation simply to say on the telephone “Fissel is in Berlin”.
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Amaldi, E. (2013). Finally Out of Prison!. In: Braccini, S., Ereditato, A., Scampoli, P. (eds) The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966). SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32855-8_14
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