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— Maximilien Robespierre"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
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Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.
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