Unfortunately I don´t remember that much, I´d have to read again.

I also read Ephraim Kishon. A Master of Satire. I loved his writing, I still do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Kishon

During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive as the camp commandant was looking for an opponent. In another camp the Germans lined up the inmates shooting every tenth person, passing him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive."

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