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Auernheimer, Noted Playwright, Reported Dead in Dachau Camp

July 3, 1938
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Le Journal reported from Berlin today that Dr. Raoul Auernheimer, leading Austrian playwright and last president of the PEN CLUB, died recently in the Dachau concentration camp. Dr. Auernheimer had been under arrest since shortly after Anschluss. He was 62 years old.

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