Col. Kriebel, associate of Adolp Hitler, was released from pirson at the same time.
Three participants in the Bavarian Communist Revolution of 1919 were released. They are Gustave Landauer, Ernst Toller and Erich Muehsam, who is a noted German poet and Paolei Zionist. He was an intimate friend of Kurt Eisner.
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