Chapter 128 The Cost of War (2)

A depressed day!

QQ was stolen. Although it was quickly recovered, many friends were harassed by payments on Alipay. They were temporarily uncertain about the losses and strongly despised and cursed the account thieves!!!

The condition has not improved. In the morning, I went to the Provincial People's Hospital and had blood tests, ct, and injections. I felt it was too unreliable, so I went to the Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital again in the afternoon. The doctor looked at the doctor and asked questions and found out that it was an external cold and internal heat. I prescribed five packs of Chinese medicine and it was done. It felt better than the national medicine... I really should have followed my mother's advice to study medicine!

I hope it can get better as soon as possible.

Apologize again and solemnly thank everyone for their support!

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"They said...there were people who survived the concentration camps who saw my family and others being taken away by the Germans, and each of these people came back alive, so they might have already..."

Dinah shrank in the corner of the bed and choked up. This was the first time that Lynn saw her so fragile, and her heart was suddenly filled with pain.

Turning his head and looking out the window, on the beach, the surrendered German soldiers were still working hard to clear mines. On the seawall not far away, civilians sat or stood and watched. What kind of mentality did these Danes look at these formerly powerful and now pitiful Germans, Lynn didn't particularly want to know the answer. In his impression, Denmark was a country with a very unique history. In the beginning, the Jutland Peninsula was only indigenous people, the Germans quickly swept the area, and the Vikings took root here. At 10 AD

Around the century, the kingdoms established by the Vikings were unprecedentedly powerful (but also fragile in structure). King Knut I of Denmark even became the co-lord of England, Norway and Denmark. However, this glory came and went quickly. After his death, the country soon broke out. However, Denmark has always maintained its status as a powerful country. Not only has it controlled the current Swedish region for a period of time, but it has also occupied Norway for a long time. Danish troops have also participated in many wars in Europe, including the Northern War that determined whether Russia could go to the ocean.

During the Napoleonic War, Denmark formed an alliance with France and was attacked by the anti-French alliance, especially Britain. After the failure of the Napoleonic Empire, Denmark lost Norway, but maintained a certain influence on the Schleswig-Holstein of North Germany. The failure of the Pundan War brought these two regions into the later German Empire. After World War I, Denmark took back the North Schleswig-William region, which was mostly Danish, thus forming the general territory of the current Danish country.

Before the German invasion in 1940, this small country was still a peaceful and peaceful place like a peach blossom land. King Christian ten had a high prestige. Faced with the increasingly strong war clouds in Europe, many Danes hoped that they could escape this catastrophe like they did during the First World War, but reality always went against people's beautiful wishes. On April 9, 1940, the German team invaded Denmark, and the small army of this country was not prepared for this. The German team only paid a very small price (the saying goes from 12 to 56 people.

After all) it was occupied, the German minister submitted a memorandum to the Danish government, declaring: "... Germany has no intention to interfere with Denmark's territorial integrity or political independence now and in the future." The past and prime minister of Denmark also issued a statement on April 9, acknowledging the fact of occupation under protest, ordering the people not to resist, and calling on them to abide by order and maintain restraint. This attitude is undoubtedly quite peculiar, but given the king's prestige, most Danes accepted this reality.

Compared with other countries occupied by Germany, the Danes enjoyed equal sovereignty with the Germans at least in theory, while the king and the cabinet took more of a negative confrontation to deal with the Germans. However, with the victory of the German war machine, Denmark had to make some concessions. In July 1940, the pro-German Scavenius served as the Foreign Minister, and he issued a declaration in favor of the "cooperation" between Denmark and Germany. In November 1941, under his strong impetus, Denmark joined the *** Convention. However, the competition around this issue strongly stimulated the Danes and greatly increased their sense of shame. Many diplomatic officials abroad in Denmark also announced their separation from the Danish government and only as "free Denmark."

The movement " (a representative of the anti-Japanese war organization consisting mainly of expatriates), and before that, the Denmark representatives in the United States took the initiative to sign a treaty with the United States to enable the United States to use the base on Danish Greenland. The Danish government felt compelled to remove him from his post and did not recognize that agreement (although they later acquiesced it). In addition, there were about 800,000 tons of Danish ships serving the allies, and some politicians who escaped from Denmark, the resistance movement was constantly strengthened abroad, and although the existence of the king and the legitimate government were still in Denmark, especially the existence of the king, the resistance movement's declaration of calling for resistance to the people in the country could not achieve the best results, the increase in power would soon put the Germans in pressure.

In the early stages of the occupation, Denmark's resistance was so sporadic and weak that the Germans could regard it as a "model protector". However, since the summer of 1942, with the reduction of hopes of victory in the German war and the strengthening of foreign command capabilities, Denmark's resistance also continued to increase. Although the Danish Prime Minister, trade union leaders and even the kings called for a halt to "sabotage activities", the situation did not improve. The Germans took two measures, on the one hand, they appointed Dr. Werner's plenipotentiary representative of Germany in order to strengthen control of the country, and on the other hand, they forced the king to appoint pro-German Scavenius as prime minister in November 1942.

However, the Denmark's Nazi Party was basically a "unable to help". In the parliamentary elections held in March 1943 (this election can be said to be an "unprecedented" concession by the Germans to the occupied areas), the Denmark's Nazi Party only received about 2% of the vote. Coupled with the incompetence of its leader Fritz'Clusson, the Germans soon gave up their support for this party and instead supported some military organizations, such as Matingson's "Danish Free Army" (Danish troops fighting on the Eastern Front) and "Sharbor Legion" (Securities Force)

At the same time, as the Germans exploited Danish labor and resources more and the Danes gradually learned about the fatigue of German war machines, the allies' bombing on the mainland was strengthened, etc., which combined, which led to a further increase in resistance and sabotage. On early August 1943, the Germans handed the Danish government an ultimatum, demanding the implementation of martial law, and the death penalty for those who carried sabotage and carry weapons, and even demanding the trial of sabotage elements in German courts under German law, but the Danish government refused to

After this demand, the Germans took action themselves, they declared martial law, dissolved the government and parliament, the king became a prisoner of war, and the army and naval officers were detained. The permanent officials of Denmark handled daily administrative work, while the Germans assumed direct control of Denmark on them. However, this also united the original division of resistance movements and established a "freedom committee", advocating the concentration of all forces on the important industrial and transportation undertakings serving German interests.

In October 1943, the Germans began to arrest Danish Jews, but the news had long been revealed, and the anti-Semitism in Denmark was far less strong, and the vast majority of Jews were protected and fled to Sweden and were escorted to less than 500 people. After this operation, in October 1943, Best declared that the state of emergency had ended, but as the resistance became more and more developed, the Germans gradually became unbearable to this situation. In June 1944, Best announced the implementation of

The curfew, which undoubtedly greatly angered the Danes, after all, this was the longest daytime in the Nordic country, and such an order was obviously an open insult. On June 30, a general strike broke out, proposing the withdrawal of the Schalborg army, lifting the curfew, restoring various supplies and transportation, and ensuring no retaliation against the strikers. On July 4, in opposition from its military colleagues and economic advisers, and more or less considering the unfavorable war situation in Germany at the time, Best accepted the strikers' demands, but this did not last long.

Later, the Gestapo, an organization that originally played only a minor role in Denmark, took the opportunity to control its power. In early August, they took over the judicial power from the German court in Denmark. Gent Pank became the actual ruler, but the resistance movement was not suppressed. After the Danish police were actually eliminated, the situation in Denmark was increasingly lost. Although the Germans continued to suppress, the resistance activities could no longer be extinguished. At the last moment of the war, the situation in Denmark became quite bad, especially food.

The lack of coal, coupled with the chaos caused by the arrival of German refugees and wounded people in Denmark, and the Germans' own mental and psychological state at the end of the war, made the Danes feel the feeling of pain for the first time in the war. Despite this, the Danes did not have a "big uprising" like some countries. However, in the five months of 1945, the Danish guerrillas' sabotage activities reached 1,301 times. For such a small country, such a large-scale sabotage operation is enough to show the Danes' anger and determination.

After spending the whole hour in silence, Dinah finally raised her head with tears and looked at her husband who was a Germanic race who was in Denmark with her. Her only four months of newlywed life brought her a lot of happiness and longing. However, one day she returned to her hometown, she found that she had to face these cruel reality. Perhaps what she felt was even more unacceptable was that her husband not only won the title of Knight of the Empire awarded by Adolf Hitler, but also worked for this politically dead empire with great thoughts, and even became a powerful driving force for its revival.

"As such a life...we still have to live?"

With heartache as if it was scratched by a knife, Lin En raised her head and replied for a long time: "Yes."

"Why?" Dinah's face was covered in tears. It was precisely this atmosphere that made Lynn regret why she didn't find a reason to make excuses, thus avoiding the difficult area of ​​Denmark.

"The arrow has left the bow, and there is no possibility of turning back." Lin Neng replied heavily.

It was a long time to remain silent again.

"How are your family?" Dinah asked softly.

Lynn turned his head and said, "I don't know, there will be no news about them after the war... I think as a Germanic family that contributed two men to the German team, their life in Denmark will be very difficult, and they may be sent back to Germany with German refugees."

"Then you don't want to know, nor do you want to help them with your strength?" Dinah seemed to be urging her stubborn husband in a side-circling manner.

Lynn lowered his head: "Think, but... it may not be the time. Although the war is over, there are still many people in this world in suffering. My family is just a trivial part of it. I hope to save them all through my efforts. This road is both difficult and far away, and the road is full of dangers, and even contrary to my original idea. But I finally stood here, standing in the mud and looking up at the stars."

Dinah might not understand these words, but she did not ask or refute. She fell asleep in the bedding without supper. Lynn sat next to her for a long time without saying a word. Seeing that she was asleep, she got up and walked out of the room.

Downstairs, including "Aunt Manli's nephew", there are a total of four men who have never met before. Except for one of the seemingly leading people, the other three are not over thirty years old. It seems that they have been persisting until now with full belief.

For Lynn, they only call it "supervisor", and it seems that they do not know the specific identities of these people.

Lynn, who was in a complicated mood, shook hands with them one by one, and then said, "Guys, the days here... should feel lonely often!"

The oldest one - with a sparse beard, about thirty years old, laughed.

"This is nothing."

Lynn nodded: "You are the real warriors."

The four of them looked at each other, as if they were greatly encouraged, with different smiles on their faces.

"Aunt Manli's nephew" said: "At least we know we have not been forgotten and abandoned, and we know what we are still fighting for."

This sounds like the heroic words spoken by the French or Polish underground resistance organizations during the war. Now the role changes, but the taste makes Lynn feel so sad and disappointed.

Another young man asked Lynn with a smile: "Sir, I heard that the most powerful weapon of Americans, the atomic bomb, leaked technology a while ago, and we have obtained it!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" the oldest intelligence officer whispered.

Lynn reached out and patted the young man on the shoulder: "Like you, we have been working hard, working in all kinds of ways. The road is still long, and we only have a firm belief like steel that is eternal."

"Well said!" "Aunt Manli's nephew" responded positively, "Sir, we should have a plan to rescue those trapped companions! I have an older brother and a younger brother who are now trapped in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp!"

Looking at the expressions of the other three people, Lynn knew that this issue must have been discussed in private for a long time. In the plan submitted to the head of state, the content of rescuing prisoners of war does exist, but it must be done until the Nordic industrial zone is initially established before there is a reason to use the management loopholes of the League team to "buy" German prisoners of war with strong labor through private transactions. According to the current situation, the first batch of factories will have to wait at least until the ice and snow begin to melt in the spring before they can start construction.

In order not to disappoint these intelligence personnel, Lynn replied: "The plan does exist, and it is very sufficient! If you have any suggestions or have more knowledge about this, you might as well say it and help you refer to it."

The leading intelligence officer signaled everyone to sit down, and made the youngest look like a head of blonde curly hair pour each of them a glass of wine, and then said:

"It is said that... in just two months after the end of the war, the number of German soldiers entering Allied prisoners of war camps surged from more than two million at the beginning to six or seven million. Anyone who had picked up weapons, even some children and elderly people, was transported away in groups as prisoners of war. About half of them remained in Britain, the United States or France, and others were sent to the Soviet Union, France and Britain. In contrast, those who went to Siberia to engage in labor were the most tragic. People generally believed that they would never return to Europe, or even their bodies would not return to their motherland."

This sounds heartbreaking, and compared to such rumors, the historical information that Lynn has been exposed to is more credible. In the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet army wiped out more than 300,000 German soldiers and captured more than 90,000. However, after the war, only 5,000 prisoners of war returned to Germany, while the others died in the prisoner-of-war camp in Siberia, Soviet Union for various reasons. One of the lucky five thousand people later recalled, "We walked to the prisoner-of-war camp with our legs, and if we were to the prisoner-of-war camp in the middle of the journey, if

If someone falls behind, the Soviet soldiers will shoot him immediately. After arriving at the prisoner-of-war camp, we have dinner every three days, and many people die every day. From February 2 to early March, more than 50,000 German prisoners died of typhoid fever... The 36,000 surviving people were transported to Siberia by train by the Soviet army for labor reform, and half of them died on the way. After arriving in Siberia, we were forced to work in the weather of minus 60 degrees Celsius. The mortality rate was very high, and only six thousand people were left soon... "

Compared with another example, these 90,000 people were lucky - in the Battle of Cherkass in 1943, when the German army broke through, they left behind all 2,000 wounded and some nursing staff, hoping to make them prisoners of the Soviet Red Army. After the war, the Soviet side announced that when the Soviet assault troops arrived, they found that all the German wounded had been shot and killed, which concluded that the German army killed all their own wounded when retreating. These two thousand German troops were not qualified to become prisoners of war. The Soviet communiqué was unanimously refuted by the German survivors in the encirclement. I wonder if this was a massacre? Anyway, no one was criticized for the death of these two thousand people. These two thousand lives were really dead in vain.

Later, when the Red Army advanced towards Germany, Soviet tanks would crush all refugee vehicles or carriages blocking the way and shoot all the fugitives they encountered with machine guns. "The fugitives were slaughtered without leaving any ground" - In the Upper Silesia region of Germany, an officer of a Soviet Red Army infantry company found the body of a Soviet patrol soldier on the streets of a village, so he ordered the massacre of all residents in the village. Soviet submarines also created the most casualties in human history so far, sinking the passenger ship "William Gustlov", with at least 5,300 people killed, most of which were women and children. Russian historians still insisted today that "there were 6,000 Nazis on the ship, of which 3,700 were submarine soldiers."

Although the Soviets were not good birds, they would really be a slight witch to compare with the United States and fighters. The German army tried every means to escape to the West and surrender to the US and British troops, but what kind of fate would be waiting for these German soldiers?

In recent years, various data in the historical community have emerged one after another, and some have quickly been recognized. Some have caused uproar and caused countless controversy. The data listed in James Buckche's book "Other Losses" belongs to the latter situation. The book claims that around the end of World War II, in the so-called "liberation" American team prisoners of war camps on the so-called "liberation" of the European continent, nearly one million German armed forces died due to hunger and intentional ***. The shock caused by this number in the Western historical community can be imagined because

According to the view that has been accepted by most Western historians today, even in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camps, which they described as "evil empire", more than 18 million civilians and more than 8.6 million soldiers died in the war with the Nazis. Therefore, among the Russians who had a blood feud with the Germans, only about 500,000 were killed in the hands of more than 3.8 million (2.5 million were captured during the war). Among them, only about 500,000 were killed, of which 363,343 were finally confirmed in 1999. Now in the free, democratic, and absolute,

In the "humanitarian prisoner-of-war camp" of the "Great American Liberators", which is said to be very "sunshine", very friendly, and relatively small losses (in the European continent, the US military and non-combat deaths, a total of 150,000 people died), and in the hands of American soldiers who were not very hated by the Germans, there were more than one million people who were killed by the deaths. What made them even more embarrassed was that in the post-war Western historical works, the "humanitarian prisoner-of-war camp" of the Americans once attracted a large number of German troops on the Eastern Front.

The slogan of "will rather surrender to the Americans than to be Russian prisoners" was once a topic of talk about by Western defenders. But Buckche's works have made all these myths disappear like a bubble that has expanded to the extreme. Another ironic situation is that the brutal Nazis were much more humane to their American German brothers. Among the more than 90,000 Americans captured by the German army, only 1,684 died, but the only few incidents of the German massacre of American prisoners of war were repeatedly hyped in Western historical materials.

The leading intelligence officer quoted the rumors he heard: "In the temporary prisoner-of-war camp, our brothers were placed on the open-air loess slope, with no tents covering the wind, rain and sun, no shade, and no houses. The strong prisoners of war digged a hole by their hands, curled up in the hole like a ground rat, and the weak lying in the open air. It was too cold at night, and a bunch of people squeezed together to keep warm with each other. Sometimes it rained heavily, and the soil in the cave loosened and landslides, and the unlucky eggs were buried alive. This is not the main problem. The main problem is that they could not get food and drink. The situation at that time was not the lack of food. In fact, the US military had a large amount of food stockpiled in the food headquarters in Europe, and the International Red Cross even had 100,000 tons of food stored in adjacent Switzerland, but hunger spread in the prisoner-of-war camp, and the surrendered Germany

The officers and soldiers had an abnormal lack of food, and they had a meal a day, and the number was only one-tenth of that of American soldiers. Many people were quickly thinner and thin. They could not get enough water. Sometimes the river was near the camp, but even such dirty water was not drunk. The disease quickly spread in the German prisoners' camps, mainly dysentery, typhoid fever, gangrene and pneumonia. There were also "extreme malnutrition" and "deficiency". Since there was no toilet in the camp, patients with dysentery and typhoid fever could move and go to the barbed wire mesh to defecate, and those who could not walk could only solve the problem on the spot. Patients lying on the mud were often covered with their own stool, which undoubtedly accelerated the spread of the disease. Without a doctor or medicine, life "disappeared automatically" - this is the main reason for the large number of deaths of prisoners of war!"

In real wars, it is impossible to achieve the same treatment as the prisoners of war and their own armed forces in many cases. Giving the other prisoners of war to maintain their survival without killing or *** is the most basic obligation of the signatory state of the Geneva Convention. It should be said that the British treated prisoners basically in accordance with the Geneva Convention: German prisoners of war are basically the same as the conditions enjoyed by the British army in terms of basic living conditions such as food and accommodation, and they can also communicate with their families. The Red Cross's regular visits to prisoners of war camps were not prohibited. At that time, General Eisenhower, who served as the commander of the Supreme Command of the European Allied Forces and later became the President of the United States, was also the President of the United States.

He was very dissatisfied with the conservative British practices. The American was determined to let Europeans learn about the "new thinking" of American prisoners of war. For this reason, in April 1945, Eisenhower made the following suggestions: "German prisoners of war can be divided into two types: the first type, the surrendered prisoners of war, the second type, the hostile armed forces. The first type can be handled in accordance with the Geneva Prisoners of War Convention. The second type of people will still be handled in accordance with the hostile armed forces." In other words, the second type of people has become the hostile armed forces who cannot enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war. According to Eisenhower's explanation, these Germans are fine even if they are killed.

Regarding the origin of Eisenhower's "new thinking", many people have explained that what they saw and heard in the liberated Nazi concentration camps was strongly stimulated by him. However, not many of the dead in the Nazi concentration camps were Americans, and the *** between the United States and Germany did not seem to be as big as the enemy prisoners of war deliberately. The Germans' attitude towards American prisoners of war did not help explain Eisenhower's move. The United States has always been a country with an overly strong sense of national superiority.

In a country known as "equality" and "melting pot of various ethnic groups", it is no longer new to strictly distinguish between people of different ethnic groups and races. But what is unknown to everyone is that Hitler, as a propagandist of extreme racial thought, once praised the racial pattern of the United States and even referred to him as a role model. The only thing that made him dissatisfied was that in the United States, rich Jews were also included in the upper class, and American materialism was something that Hitler, who was born in Europe, could not let go.

Of course, racism cannot fully explain the "new thinking of prisoners of war" in the United States. In fact, the Germans also dominate the United States, but when Eisenhower walked into the Nazi concentration camp where corpses were everywhere, a new sense of extreme superiority, that is, the extreme sense of ideological superiority emerged: we come from the United States of "democracy, freedom, and fraternity", and this is the place of brutal Nazi rule. We are ideologically superior to them and we are superior to them. They are animals, and we are advanced humans. Humans naturally do whatever they want to do with animals.

The final result of this ideological superiority based on the sense of racial superiority, to the words of an American veteran, is: "Apart from the Americans, everyone else is not human." In the eyes of Americans whose sense of superiority has expanded to the extreme, not only brutal Nazism, but even as long as it is a different ideology and civilization form from the United States, it is natural to deal with the so-called "evil". German prisoners of war have become victims of this sense of superiority.

Eisenhower's suggestion was quickly implemented. By August 1945, about three months after the end of the European War, almost all German prisoners of war became "dismissed hostile armed forces". The conservative British could not adapt to the "new thinking" of the "guardians", so the Americans had to do it themselves. Therefore, in May 1945, the materials of the International Red Cross were considered that the vast majority of German prisoners of war in good health, except for the injured, soon became dying hungry prisoners.

Lynn vaguely remembers that in a memoir written by a guard in a US prisoner-of-war camp, he recorded what he saw in a prisoner-of-war camp near the Rhine: more than 50,000 German prisoners were stalked with barbed wire in an uncovered wilderness, and they were forced to sleep on the mud in wet, rainy and cold weather. The full American soldiers watched the Germans eat soup made of weeds, and at the same time, sleep like animals in their feces without a toilet, and then began to die slowly and tragically.

Go. When some American soldiers threw food over the barbed wire, the US officials even threatened to shoot these "undisciplined" comrades and subordinates. When the German women threw food at the German prisoners of war on the barbed wire, the US officials played the real thing: they kept firing all the bullets in the gun before they were willing to stop. They called this "target training". The Nazi Germans' means to deal with Soviet prisoners of war and Soviet civilians who dared to provide them with food on the Eastern Front, the US was in a plenary session without a teacher.

These situations are not only not uncommon in the many German prisoners of war camps of the Americans, but are extremely common. The different prisoners of war camps of the US military depicted by many witnesses were almost all carved out in the same mold: German prisoners were driven to the loess slopes surrounded by barbed wire under the open world, and neither built houses and tents to hide the wind, rain and sun, nor provided places with shade, nor even a blanket. German prisoners of war were in most cases.

, they could only dig holes on the ground with their own hands, and then curl up like ground mice to hide from the invasion of wind, rain and scorching sun. Those who are weak and unable to dig holes can only let the wind and rain blow in the open air. In order to resist the bone-broken cold, the only solution is to squeeze together to keep warm with each other's body temperature. But those who live in the hole are not sometimes worthy of envy. When it rains heavily, the soil in the cave looses and collapses, and they are buried alive.

In such prisoners of war camps, hygiene is naturally an unattainable luxury when there is no toilet or even a cesspool. The "scenery" of German prisoners of war sleeping in feces described by the American guard above can be seen everywhere. Two doctors who once worked in the US military medical team in Europe have similar memories: "About 100,000 ragged people were squeezed into the mud deep at knees, dirty, haggard, thin, and dull...", and these people lying on the mud often filled their bodies with their stools. In this case, malignant diseases such as dysentery, typhoid fever, gangrene and pneumonia quickly spread in prison camps. The most deadly killer, hunger, has many more

The German prisoners of war were sent to the underworld. An 18-year-old German prisoner war later recalled: "We lived on a very crowded open-air slope surrounded by barbed wire, with an unusually lack of food. We only had one meal a day, and the number was only one-tenth of that of American soldiers. Many people were so thin that they were skinny and boneless. I told a US official that they violated the Geneva Convention, and he replied to me: The Geneva Convention has nothing to do with you, and you have no rights." The Americans not only did not provide food, but even the right to drink water for prisoners of war. Even the dirty water in the river next to the prisoner of war camp is often out of reach for German prisoners of war.

The sanitation conditions were poor, the disease was prevalent, and the hostile Americans not only did not provide medicines and treatments, but even food and drinking water that maintained basic survival were deducted as much as possible. The death of a large number of German prisoners of war was inevitable. Another German prisoner of war later recalled with pain: "There were 10,000 people in my prisoner of war camp, and 30 to 40 bodies were carried out every day. I used to carry the bodies. We put the bodies on the trolley and transported them out of the camp, took off their clothes, and put them into the iron carriage layer by layer."

A large number of prisoners of war finally disappeared, and their relevant archive materials were also destroyed. In this case, it is difficult for us to judge whether James Buckche’s so-called death of “million prisoners of war” is accurate, but the fact that a large number of German prisoners of war died due to the American “new thinking of prisoners of war” is undoubtedly true.
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