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When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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