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{compassion} matthew e. henry in the winter of 1945, as the war drew to a close, a detachment of Russian soldiers stumbled upon a group of Wehrmacht having a few laughs: the raping of a young Jewess, who had managed to remain hidden for quite some time, by a trained dog. the Russians, their shoulders collecting snow, allowed them to finish. an inch later they machine gunned the Germans, and the dog. the girl, wrapped in their warm coats, was offered food and encouraged to be thankful they happened along, for certainly she would have died in the hands of the Germans. she smiled and nodded vigorously at their kind lieutenant’s words before she quickly, deftly, drew his sidearm and shot herself in the head. |
