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The Third Reich Was Dark And Inhumane
It was a crusty autumn morning in Munich, Nazi Germany, world war two was in its second year. The third Reich has occupied much of Europe and the Chinese and Japanese have been engaged in a virtually non-stop war and only has been intensifying after the Jap's had violated and exploited Nanjing and decapitated anybody that dares to oppose them. When they left; only corpses, pits of ash where the dead were burned, and the ruins of houses where people once lived in and all the women old and young were sold, I can't tell what they were sold for, but I can tell you, it was dark and inhumane. The young boys who were too young to fight were forced to work on rich farms if they dared argue or refuse off with their hands and then off with heads and

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