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First Line: The first day the germans came into the city
Last Line: The officers poured kerosene under them %and set it on fire


The Jews in Spain
And the Moors
In the Christian states of Spain,
And again the Jews
And the Moors;
In Hungary, the Turkish wars;
In America, the Indian wars;
The Boer War, the Philippine War;
Russia and the Jews;
In China, the Boxer War;
The Russian Revolution;
The Chinese Revolution.
The massacre of the Armenians
And the Assyrians
In Turkey;
The persecution of the Jews
In Russia, Roumania, Austria,
And in Germany and Poland
The pogroms.
The Inquisition in Spain;
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew;
The Thirty Years' War;
The Peasants' War;
The English Civil War;
The American Revolution;
The Terror in France;
The Commune in Paris.
The barbarians and the Romans;
The invasion of the Huns;
The wars of the Northmen;
The Crusades.
The persecutions of the Waldenses
And the Huguenots;
The conquest of Mexico and Peru;
The slave trade;
The Boer War, the Philippine War;
The World War.






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