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Franz Werfel Reported Killed

June 27, 1940
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Hendrik Willem van Loon, the author, said today he had been informed by a reliable source that Franz Werfel, the German Jewish poet, playwright and novelist, was believed to have been captured by the Nazis in Paris and killed.

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