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Traer Physician Spent Years as Soviet Prisoner
Dr Robert Sponner, a 46 year old surgeon who recently settled in Clutter, recounts three years as a prisoner in Odessa after serving as chief and field hospital surgeon in Austria during World War I. He details Soviet hospital control by servants, severed authority for surgeons, and pay of 8000 rubles monthly. He later faced dispossession of his Austrian property before moving to America.
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Traer
Russia
Austria
Robert Sponner
Clutter
Sponner
Odessa
Black Sea
Spanner
Department of Public Health
Romanoff Czar
Dr. Sponner
Versailles
Vienna
America
Dr. Spanner