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— Bernard Malamud"Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter."
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I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.
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