Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.

Elias Canetti
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When the Nazis were in power, they forced concentration camp prisoners to work until they dropped. They made a point of humiliating these workers and making them suffer every day. But the more they suffered, the more they would hate the Nazis and the whole Nazi system. And as they grow older, these former prisoners tell their children and grandchildren about what happened to them.

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