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- Narrator: Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came, the people were gathered together. The men were taken to garages and barns, the women and children were led down this road, and they were driven into this church. Here, they heard the firing as their men were shot. Then they were killed too. A few weeks later, many of those who had done the killing were themselves dead, in battle. They never rebuilt Oradour. Its ruins are a memorial. Its martyrdom stands for thousands upon thousands of other martyrdoms in Poland, in Russia, in Burma, China, in a World at War...
- Self - 'Daily Telegraph,' Berlin: [following the Night of the Long Knives] Goering gave a press conference at the propaganda ministry. Goebbels was the minister of propaganda, but Goebbels had wisely stayed with Hitler that time, because Goering hates his guts, and might have taken the opportunity to bump him off if he'd been in Berlin. And Goering had that press conference for the foreign press. Before that the telephones had been vut off to all foreign countries. Goering came striding in and said "I know you boys always like to have a story" - he used the English word - "I've got a story for you alright."