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There were about a hundred of us in our particular work group, and we were put out as contract labour to a factory that was making a vitamin-enriched malt syrup for pregnant women. I got to go to a city, which was Dresden, and to see the people and the things they did. I was a private, a battalion scout, and, under the terms of the Geneva Convention, I had to work for my keep, which was good, not bad I didn't have to stay in prison all the time, somewhere out in the countryside. Germany from the inside while the war was still going on.

After a while the war came, and I was in it, and I was captured, so I got to see a little of file:///F|/rah/Kurt%20Vonnegut/Vonnegut%20-%20Mother%20Night.txt (1 of 100) The Indianapolis mayor knew her from high school and dancing school, so he had fun putting ribbons and official seals all over the documents the Germans required, which made them look like eighteenthcentury peace treaties. And I remember some laughs about my aunt, too, who married a German German, and who had to write to Indianapolis for proofs that she had no Jewish blood. There were some vile and lively native American Fascists in my home town of Indianapolis during the thirties, and somebody slipped me a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Toon, I remember, which was supposed to be the Jews' secret plan for taking over the world. My personal experience with Nazi monkey business was limited. I don't think it's a marvellous moral, I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ISBN: 3-2 Reprinted by arrangement with Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence Printed in the United States of America Published simultaneously in Canada November 1991 40 39 38 37 36 RAD Introduction This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. The trademark Dell(r) is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries.

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