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Excerpt from According to Orders
Relations between the conquerors and the - tem porarily - conquered, if not cordial, were at least friendly. The French women had homes to be kept together and young mouths to be fed. The Ger man soldiers naturally relaxed from the strain of those long, drear weeks when they lived under the alternative of kill or be killed. Besides, human beings not actually engaged in hostilities cannot live in close propinquity without the emergence of amica ble sentiments. The German soldiers looked at the little children and remembered that they themselves.
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