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FDR: “The practice of executing scores of innocent hostages in reprisal for isolated attacks on Germans in countries…”

On the recordAugust 20, 1942
The practice of executing scores of innocent hostages in reprisal for isolated attacks on Germans in countries temporarily under the Nazi heel revolts a world already inured to suffering and brutality.
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Democratic · New York

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Statement on Axis Crimes in Occupied Countries

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