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Joachim Joseph was nine-years-old when the Germans invaded the Netherlands. He remembered his father looking out the window at the columns of Nazi armour outside their home. His father was crying.
“There is a sky, and there is a heaven. The sky is a matter of height. Heaven is a matter of depth.”—Shimon Peres
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CAIB Report, Vol. 1, Sect. 6.4, Pg. 173.
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CAIB Report, Vol. 1, Fig. 6.1-6, Pg. 127.
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CAIB Report, Vol. 1, Fig. 6.1-7, Pg. 128.
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CAIB Report, Vol. 2, App. D.13, Sect. 3.6, Pg. 401.
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Hutchinson, Ars Technica.
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Ibid.
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CAIB Report, Vol. 1, Sect. 6.4, Pg. 174.
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CAIB Report, Vol. 2, App. D.13, Pg. 410.
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CAIB Report, Vol. 2, App. D.13, Sect. 4.5, Pg. 406.
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Leinbach and Ward, Pg. 269.
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