My lips twitched into a righteous smile. I felt godlike. Justified. Valko would pay for his crimes here and now, and I wound not weep with regret.

Kathryn Purdie
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When the Nazi war criminal Valko Klempel was captured, he was tortured to reveal information that would lead to the capture of other Nazi war criminals. When he finally cracked under the torture and gave up information, he was so against his own actions that he tried to commit suicide. The only thing that stopped him was his own guilt. After he lost everything, Klempel really felt like a criminal because he had harmed so many people.

Klempel wrote about the experience in his memoirs: "My lips twitched into a righteous smile. I felt godlike. Justified.

Valko would pay for his crimes here and now, and I wound not weep with regret"

Source: Crystal Blade

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