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The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm ... we were good at that.

Emeric Pressburger

Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988), Hungarian screenwriter, and Rodney Ackland (b. 1908), British. Vogel (Nial McGinnis), The 49th Parallel, feeling remorse over what his fellow Germans have done in the war (1941).

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