Bernhard Steinberger
Bernhard Steinberger (17 September 1917 - 16 December 1990) was a German engineer and economist. After
1945 he became an
East German political dissident and / or victim, spending most of the period between 1949 and 1960 in prisons and labour camps. He had, by this time, already spent the
war years accommodated in a succession of "emigrants' camps" in
Switzerland, where he had arrived from
Milan with his mother and sister in 1938 in order to escape the effects of newly introduced
antisemitic legislation in
Italy. (The family were Jewish.)
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