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Gunter Grass Quotes: I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
         

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.


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