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News of Auschwitz — the death camp within the borders of the expanded German state, exchange 2258 on the German telephone system — reached the diarist Victor Klemperer in March 1942, and by that October he was describing it as “a swift-working slaughter-house”; another diarist recorded hearing an official of the SS security service on a suburban train brag about the number of victims killed at that camp every week.
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The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.
Chapter 3 2010
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The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.
Chapter 4 2010
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News of Auschwitz — the death camp within the borders of the expanded German state, exchange 2258 on the German telephone system — reached the diarist Victor Klemperer in March 1942, and by that October he was describing it as “a swift-working slaughter-house”; another diarist recorded hearing an official of the SS security service on a suburban train brag about the number of victims killed at that camp every week.
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While a slaughter-house was made of the nation by the capitalist, the Church was dumb.
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News of Auschwitz — the death camp within the borders of the expanded German state, exchange 2258 on the German telephone system — reached the diarist Victor Klemperer in March 1942, and by that October he was describing it as “a swift-working slaughter-house”; another diarist recorded hearing an official of the SS security service on a suburban train brag about the number of victims killed at that camp every week.
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I knew Sam was dead from the moment I saw her in the slaughter-house.
Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010
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I knew Sam was dead from the moment I saw her in the slaughter-house.
Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010
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The nauseating potion left a vile taste in his mouth, “as if I had swallowed a slaughter-house,” and he spent the next twelve hours throwing up and bleeding from the nose before deciding that he was “about as waked up now as I care to be.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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The nauseating potion left a vile taste in his mouth, “as if I had swallowed a slaughter-house,” and he spent the next twelve hours throwing up and bleeding from the nose before deciding that he was “about as waked up now as I care to be.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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