Place · forest
the forest
forest
Forest where partisans were believed to hide.
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... On top of everything, the night was bitterly cold.
Our teeth chattering, ravenously hungry, our clothes in
tatters, all alone, feeling useless, pursued by Nazi beasts
and at the mercy of a cold-blooded peasant, we fell to
his feet and begged him to save us. Apparently he was
moved by our fervent entreaties, which could have
melted a stone, and he promised to lead us to the forest
where the Partisans hid out. ...Connected nodes
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