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 | | Among Pellico’s damning accounts of life in the Spielberg was the following: "Some 300 convicts, most of them robbers and murderers, were serving sentences," Pellico wrote, "some of `hard,’ others of ‘very hard’ labour. |
 | | During World War II, the Nazis took over the Spielberg, and used it for the same foul purposes for which it had been used in the early nineteenth century: to house, torture, and kill a never-tallied number of doomed prisoners of war. |
 | | The history of the Spielberg castle, now known by its Czech name, Špilberk, is from Humphreys, Rob, Czech and Slovak Republics: The Rough Guide, London and New York: Penguin Books, 1998, p. |
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