"Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen? Sich fügen heißt lügen. Wenn es einen Gott gibt, muß er mich um Verzeihung bitten."
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January 1, 1970

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Who: Unknown concentration camp prisoner — Note: These words were found scribbled into a cell wall at the Mauthausen concentration camp, its author a Jewish prisoner. 'To bend means to lie' is from a 1920 poem titled "The Prisoner", written by Erich Mühsam, a German-Jewish antimilitarist anarchist poet.