Correspondent in London
Like so many other little boys, John loved these bedtime war stories under the warm light of the bedside lamp.
In the voice of the storyteller, he felt the great history and the brave hearts of men vibrate.
The shivers of fear mingled with the scents of adventure.
Didn't his father-in-law also teach him to jump off a wall like a parachutist?
Hadn't he given her a replica Luger pistol to play soldier in the rubble of the bombed city?
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Then, these stories became more and more sinister.
Raw horror took precedence over everything else.
Stanislaw Chrzanowski then speaks only of interrogations and tortured prisoners, of babies seized by the ankles and crushed against the angle of a wall.
The facts take place in the city of Slonim, in present-day Belarus.
Man sometimes combines the atrocious gesture with the word.
Stan explains that he observed these horrors through binoculars.
But her way so alive
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