“A thousand eyes are gazing down like bullet holes shot into the roof, as I lie here scratching for a grain of truth.”
"Balalaika", Get Off the Cross (We Need the Wood for the Fire (October 22, 1996).
Lyrics, Firewater
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at Babi Yar <br class="br">Source: [Sereny, Gitta, Gitta Sereny, 1974, Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder, 2005 paperback, Pimlico, London, 978-0-7126-7447-8, 97 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ntgT48CY1wwC&pg=PA97] Sereny also mentions the story in her 1995 biography of Albert Speer: [Sereny, Gitta, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth, 1996 paperback, Picador, London, 978-0-330-34697-9, 272 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_Z3gKDdRgL8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA272]
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