Helmut Damerius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German communist, actor, victim of Stalinism
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Place of Birth: Wedding, Berlin, Germany
About Helmut Damerius
- Helmut Damerius (December 16, 1905 – September 29, 1985) was a German communist and a member of the Left Column, an agitprop theater group.
- As the Nazi Party gained in strength, he went into exile in Moscow, only to be arrested in the so-called Hitler Youth Conspiracy and sentenced to a long term in a Soviet prison.
- After his prison sentence, he was banished to Kazakhstan and was not permitted to move elsewhere.
- In 1956, he received permission to move to East Germany, where he stayed until his death.
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