Я сегодня закончил перечитывать роман про бомбардировку Германии британскими летчиками в 1943 году. Там один немецкий летчик крадет документы о нацистских медицинских экспериментах над заключенными в концлагере Дахау, и показывает другому летчику; тот произносит длинную речь, в которой есть такой отрывок:
Of course we can't approve of the sort of things that occur, these camps that people speak of in whispers, the witch-hunts for Jews and Communists, the "gunboat diplomacy" that Hitler used to annex Austria and then Czechoslovakia. These things are bad things, but they are all things that Britain did, or would have done if necessary, to achieve its position as a world power. If Hitler cheats he cheats for Germany, if he steals he steals for Germany, if he kills then this he does for Germany too.
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Of course we can't approve of the sort of things that occur, these camps that people speak of in whispers, the witch-hunts for Jews and Communists, the "gunboat diplomacy" that Hitler used to annex Austria and then Czechoslovakia. These things are bad things, but they are all things that Britain did, or would have done if necessary, to achieve its position as a world power. If Hitler cheats he cheats for Germany, if he steals he steals for Germany, if he kills then this he does for Germany too.