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Ruby Flint ([personal profile] spotlighted) wrote in [community profile] poly_chromatic 2013-03-17 05:08 am (UTC)

[She refills her glass, thumping the bottle on the table rather hard having to think about it.]

They completely fucked it over. Like, things had been really bad in Germany after-- [after Jimmy's war, she's about to say, and stops herself. It's strange how quickly she's adopted that mentality, his war and hers, but they do seem to be the only people here that had gone through those wars, experiences unlike any other that had ever been fought, and really understood them.] --after the first war. There's pictures of people taking wheelbarrows full of money just to buy a loaf of bread because inflation was that out of control, it was crazy. And I guess when it's that crazy people jump to extremes in a way that they otherwise wouldn't, and I guess they did get the economy under control and stuff because they were so damn efficient but--

[She pauses, suddenly feeling extremely awkward as she remembers that she's explaining this to a Jew. It's almost as though she's completely sobered up. As flippantly as she's talked about both World War II and the Cold War so far, she really can't with this.]

They built death camps. And they rounded up and killed six million Jews.

[She's silent for a moment, staring at her hands.]

We got 'em in the end, but... it never should have happened.

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