"I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality."

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“Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”

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“I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death.”

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