"and there were oak leaves in the barracks , proliferating on decorations and on tombstones, and there had always been a picture of that twitchy and repressed type, the Führer, with his Charlie Chaplin moustache, looking benevolently down on his herd of sacrificial lambs, the boys in uniform now ready for the slaughter."
-- Death in Rome
Wolfgang Koeppen
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