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"The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable."
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"It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory."
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"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."
"After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat."
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