Gustav Sobottka Jr., Date of Birth, Date of Death
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German communist, Great Purge victim
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About Gustav Sobottka Jr.
- Gustav Sobottka Jr.
- (10 April 1915 – 22 September 1940) was a German communist and the son of Communist Party functionary and trade unionist Gustav Sobottka.
- He spent several months in Nazi concentration camps, then left Germany, eventually living in exile in the Soviet Union.
- He was arrested by the Soviet secret police at the age of 23 and accused of being part of the so-called Hitler Youth Conspiracy.
- Sobottka died in a Soviet prison.
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