Eugen Loebl, one of the Jewish officials in postwar Czechoslovakia who was arrested and tried in the infamous Slansky trial in 1952, died here last week after a heart attack. He was 80 years old. A former First Deputy Foreign Trade Minister, he was one of 14 people, 11 of them Jews, forced to confess to treason and espionage during the 1952 trial.
Loebl and two codefendants were sentenced to life imprisonment. The rest were hanged. After serving 11 years, he was released and named director of the Czechoslovak State Bank in Bratislava in 1963. He immigrated to the United States in 1968 and became a State Department consultant and a teacher. He taught economics and political science at Vassar College in upstate New York from 1969 until he retired in 1976.
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