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In January 1941 the fate of Europe and the world seemed to be sealed.  Only the deluded could still think that Germany would not win;  the stolid English "had not noticed that they had lost the game," and obstinately resisted under the bombings; but they were alone and suffered bloody losses on all fronts.  Only a voluntarily deaf and blind man could have nay doubts about the fate reserved for the Jews in a German Europe;  we had read Feuchtwanger's Oppermanns smuggled secretly in from France, and a British White Book, which arrived from Palestine and described the "Nazi atrocities";  we had only believed half of it, but that was enough.  Many refugees from Poland and France reached Italy, and we had talked with them:  they did not know the details of the slaughters that were taking place behind a monstrous curtain of silence, but each of them was a messenger, like those who run to Job to tell him, "I alone have escaped to tell you the story."
-Primo Levi,  The Periodic Table