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“apparently the had been beaten and robbed and the car set ablaze…”

oh my god

“‘but she’s dead, mrs. roth! just like my father! now BOTH my parents are dead!’ and, of course, he was right.”


WHAT THE HELL

“…fdr, who had died in office the previous year, only weeks before the unconditional surrender of nazi germany to the allies marked the end of world war two in europe.”

it’s crazy that even after all of that, even after all the deviation from the actual historical timeline, it still ended the same

“as everyone knows, president lindbergh was not found or heard from again…”

wait, he’s legitimately gone?????

“…and they mayor of nearby rochester initiates a bomb shelter program ‘to protect our residents in the event of a surprise canadian attack.’”

i have never heard the words “canadian attack” used before

“oh, the pleasure we must be affording to the most malevolent men on earth!”

“first, a front-page chicago tribune article, datelined berlin, reports that the twelve-year-old son of president and mrs. lindbergh—the child believed to have been kidnapped and murdered in new jersey in 1932—has been reunited with his father in berchtesgaden after having been reduced by the nazis from a dungeon in kraków, poland, where he had been help prisoner in the city’s jewish ghetto ever since…”

“…alvin shouted at my father, ‘the jews? i wrecked my LIFE for the jews! m i lost my fuckin’ LEG for the jews! i lost my fuckin’ leg for YOU! what did i give a shit either way about lindbergh? but you send me to go fuckin’ fight him, and the stupid fuckin’ kid i am, i GO. and look, LOOK, uncle fucking disaster—I HAVE NO FUCKING LEG!”