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* Background of the Ponger/Verber Case: Curt Ponger and Otto Verber, both Viennese Jews, were brothers-in-law who escaped Nazi persecution, arriving in the United States in 1938. | * Background of the Ponger/Verber Case: Curt Ponger and Otto Verber, both Viennese Jews, were brothers-in-law who escaped Nazi persecution, arriving in the United States in 1938. | ||
* 10 February 1943 — Drafted into Army at NYC as Pvt (ASN: 32798743). | |||
* 8 May 1943 — Became naturalized U.S. citizen. | * 8 May 1943 — Became naturalized U.S. citizen. | ||
* 23 May 1944 — Assigned to IPW Team 66 attached to XV Corps. | * 23 May 1944 — Assigned to IPW Team 66 attached to XV Corps. | ||
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* Once the IMT had adjourned, Ponger and Verber returned to Vienna, taking up residence in the Soviet sector of the Austrian capital. | * Once the IMT had adjourned, Ponger and Verber returned to Vienna, taking up residence in the Soviet sector of the Austrian capital. | ||
* Ponger and Verber moved to Vienna where they started an undercover press agency “Central European Literary Agency”. | * Ponger and Verber moved to Vienna where they started an undercover press agency “Central European Literary Agency”. | ||
* Promoted to M/Sgt. | |||
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