Quote #9

We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of interment by the Germans:. My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years.

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