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“Do you know what it means? That whip?” he asks as the edges begin to blacken. “No.” He chucks the brown hat into the flames as well and then goes to work on the buttons of his shirt, never once looking away from my face. “It’s a sign of Hitler’s favor. Something he gives to his officers. They are called Obersturmführer. Senior Storm Leaders. They are the ones he has pulled from prisons and gangs and mental institutions. Murderers. Rapists. Thieves. Child molesters. They are chosen specifically for their depravity and then given whips so they can be let loose upon whatever victims please the
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Most Frenchwomen employ subtlety in their battles, death by a thousand paper cuts. Whereas I prefer a direct attack. Piss or get off the pot.
Every day I think things cannot become more restrictive in the Free Zone, and every day I am proven wrong. A week ago the Vichy government signed into law a decree that declares all foreign-born Jews to be illegal immigrants. They are, without warning or chance of appeal, to be sent directly to Germany and housed in concentration camps.