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291 The Dachau/Plattling story: Ibid., Epstein, and Tolstoy.

292 “The scene inside”: Elliott, 93. 292 “It just wasn’t human”: Ibid.

292 “What happened at Plattling”: Ibid. Quoted from Juergen Thorwald, Whom They Wanted to Destroy: Report of the Great Treason (Stuttgart: Steingrueben-Verlag, 1952).

292 “For about two weeks day and night”: Epstein, 100. From a letter to him written by Sinclair J. Hoffman, April 22, 1969.

294 The Kempton roundup comes from Tolstoy and from Elliott, Pawns of Yalta.

295 The Linz roundup comes from Polskaya and Trachevsky.

296 “The soldiers scurried, taking away”: Ibid., 129. 296 “Oh my god, the river was full”: Polskaya, 129.

296 A medical doctor strapped her child: Trachevsky, 211.

297 “Who is going to” have to answer: Elliott, Pawns of Yalta, 92.

298 “My part in the Plattling”: Ibid., 104. Quoted from Coffin’s memoir, Once to Every Man.

298 “The cries of these”: Ibid., 104. Quoted from Howley’s introduction to Nikolai Krasnov’s book, The Hidden Russia: My Ten Years as a Slave Laborer. New York: Henry Holt, 1960.

PART THREE: EPILOGUE

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