CIA • 1941

0SS - PUBLIC LETTERS FROM GERMAN BISHOP VON GALEN PROTESTING FORCED EUTHANASIA POLICY OF THE THIRD REICH, 1942/SITUATION REPORTS ON GREECE, TURKEY, AND THE BALKANS, 1944

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