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She was equally horrified by a huge torchlight parade in Wiesbaden composed of African soldiers carrying posters depicting caricatures of ‘Hun heads’. A French bystander informed her that such parades were held frequently, their purpose being to remind the Germans who had won the war. ‘I shall never forget’, wrote Detzer, ‘the looks on the faces of those silent Germans who stood watching that parade.’
Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
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