Many “second generation” delegates brought their babies along with them, and tots dozed exhausted in their strollers. Their presence seemed to say: “Over a million of our babies were thrown into flaming ditches, smashed from rooftops, and shot before the eyes of their horrified mothers … but we are renewing our ranks and these babies, too, will remember.”
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