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Hekate

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17. My late MIL was Viennese, leaving town with the Anschluss on her heels. She saw it coming earlier...

Sun Mar 6, 2016, 08:52 PM

Mar 2016

....but could not persuade her parents to leave everything behind, so she fled without them.

As my husband told me, on the one hand they saw this as just another bad patch of pogroms that would pass (they were originally from Russia), and on the other hand and even more important, Austria and Germany were centers of European culture, art, music, philosophy, medicine -- few indeed could believe that the horrors to come were even possible.

Trump. Well, after Dubya was installed in what amounted to a coup d'etat, I no longer fully believe that our inherent systems will protect us. GOTV.

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Donald Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed, according to his ex-wife [View all] MrScorpio Mar 2016 OP

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Melania Major Nikon Mar 2016 #7

I'm sure that she'll outlive him VMA131Marine Mar 2016 #14

His longest marriage lasted 14 years Major Nikon Mar 2016 #19

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Yes, that must be the reason for it. ohnoyoudidnt Mar 2016 #18

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My late MIL was Viennese, leaving town with the Anschluss on her heels. She saw it coming earlier... Hekate Mar 2016 #17

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