“I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.”

—  Oswald Pohl

To Leon Goldensohn, June 4, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
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