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Writing this on the feeder bus that goes to the subway. Read a bit of a new book, On Earth as It Is Beneath. There’s a bit of a sale going on for Kindle books which delayed my leaving the house today. Bought a few books about WW2. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The Third Reich in Power Mein Kampf All three books total for under 10USD. I had points for a 3USD discount so yay? I’ve tried getting into the First World War but it was very European-centric. The second one is a lot closer to us. I mean, my grandmother went through the Japanese occupation of Singapore. We’ve been taught the Imperial Japan part of WW2 as we grew up. Now I’m interested to know what happened on the other side of the world. What fascinates me is not so much the ideology but how a bunch of regular people just followed orders and made the worst atrocities possible. Anyway, I think the few pieces of media really got me looking at the Holocaust in recent years we’re the Jesse Eisenberg film A Real Pain and the TV…

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