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“In my own mind these reports of Hitler and Goebbels are supplemented by a professional distinction drawn by a friend of ours who at the time was a houseman in the hospital of a small industrial town in Saxony. ‘In the evening when the injured were admitted following the rallies’, she often told…” quote by Victor Klemperer
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““In my own mind these reports of Hitler and Goebbels are supplemented by a professional distinction drawn by a friend of ours who at the time was a houseman in the hospital of a small industrial town in Saxony. ‘In the evening when the injured were admitted following the rallies’, she often told us, ‘I always knew straightaway which party each one belonged to, even if he was already in bed without any clothes on: those with head wounds inflicted by beer mugs or chair legs were Nazis, and those with a stiletto wound in the lung were Communists.’ As regards reputation the same can be said of the SA as of Italian literature, in both cases the greatest splendour is to be found in the early stages, a radiance that can never be attained again.””

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