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"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."

Alan Bullock, British Historian

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"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."

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