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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. | |||
* 8 May 1943 — Became naturalized U.S. citizen. | |||
* 23 May 1944 — Assigned to IPW Team 66 attached to XV Corps. | |||
* In Britain, Ponger met his Viennese girl friend Vera (Otto Verber’s elder sister) whom he married later in 1948. | |||
* RG 319. Records of the Army Staff, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2. CIC Collection. Organizational History Files. 430th CIC Detachment (631: 53/21/5). Box 61. File 228-08. Declassified (NND 921531) 6 June 2000. | |||
* 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”. | |||
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