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Fearful People Do Not Act Well

As a general rule fearful people do not act well. At 12 years of age, Hamburg resident Peter Perls was inexplicably swept up in the wave of fear that gripped the German people and resulted in the genocidal fury of the Third Reich. It is impossible for us to even imagine the fear this young man faced when he was removed from his home on Weidenstieg Strasse and forced to board a train to Auschwitz . . .