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World: Through a Bloody Haze

The rapacious Nazi beast was dying—but he was dying hard. Now he was backed to the door of his cavern and the blows of his enemies rained upon him without let. Through a bloody haze he saw vengeance closing in. He could no longer think, no longer speak to his followers in words that made even Nazi sense.

He spoke through the voice of fox-faced Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, ace of the German military commentators. What Dittmar had to say was that Germany was defeated, but that it must fight on, "breaking the will of the enemy to destroy us."

The beast spoke...

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