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> [“In October 1941, Mahilue became teh first substantial city in occupied Soviet Belarus where almost all Jews were killed. A German (Austrian) policeman wrote to his wife of his feelings and experiences shooting the city's Jews in the first days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/in-october-1941-mahilue-became-teh-first-substantial-city-in-occupied/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

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> [Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-bagramyan/whatever-we-saw-in-october-1941-cannot-be-compared-to-anything-that/)

[Ivan Bagramyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-bagramyan/)

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