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"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."

Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Activist

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"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."

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