While I don’t remember much of it, one sequence was irrevocably burned onto my brain. At the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, with the camp littered with emaciated bodies and a few walking dead, a British soldier sat on a bulldozer shoving naked dead Jews into a mass grave.
“We always dismissed that coterie of hard left as a bunch of cranks … we were wrong to do that. As soon as they got the opportunity they were watching for, they took advantage of that and the speed at which they took over the party at all levels when they grasped the leadership was absolutely frightening.”
Guns are merely a symptom of a national crisis that is much trickier to regulate, in part because it is so fundamental to the American way.
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