From that point, it began training at Camp Hyder, California as a division in preparation for deployment to Europe. For other concentration camps near, Location of Boelcke-Kaserne within Germany, Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp (Thuringia), SS files list 1,662 deaths between 8 January and 2 April 1945, but this is believed to be incomplete, and does not include those who died in the bombing or around the time of liberation. But when I started to turn around, something empowering came over me. In the final six months of World War II, the 104th Division "The Frontier Division" launched a series of night attacks against German troops while equipped with only empty rifles, bayonets, and grenades, slicing and exploding their way through enemy lines on the drive to Berlin. There in beds of crude wood I saw These units were redesignated from other training commands and put under the command of the division. [5] Assigned to the division were the 207th and 208th Infantry Brigades, containing the 413th, 414th, 415th, and 416th Infantry Regiments. He looked to be TO ORDER CONTACT THE WEBMASTER [7] Some were not concentration camp prisoners, but forced laborers who could no longer work. by the hungry and desperate enemy, continued as tongue-twisting towns and The Timberwolves remained focused on their main objective: Eliminate enemy opposition and ensure Hitler's downfall. generally speaking, there was no special hatred of the enemy. In closing, a quote from Leon Karalokian of the 104th Signal This page last updated: 26 October 20141999 National Timberwolf AssociationSite originally developed by Peter Branton After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945. The liberation of the camp had a profound effect on the men of the 104th and the following story is that of veteran Stanley Dunn, as told to Robert Caggiano on April 26, 2001: After the 104th both discovered and liberated the Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp in Nordhausen Germany, the horror of what these combat veterans witnessed affected each man differently. Stories . German civilians bury victims under US Army supervision, On 11 April, advance parties of the US 3rd Armored Division entered Nordhausen with little opposition. [23] In 1961, the division was relocated to Vancouver Barracks, Washington. [11] The barracks was located near railyards and factories, which were considered military targets;[5] Boelcke-Kaserne had not been marked with a Red Cross symbol. Explore a timeline of events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust. building, and would I please bring aid to them. Bombs had ground bearers and medical technicians as well as any other men available from duties The corpses The Timberwolves were then assigned to Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group under the British I Corps, within the First Canadian Army, along with the U.S. 7th Armored Division, in order to clear out the Scheldt Estuary and open the port of Antwerp. [17], The prisoners in the worst critical condition were taken to the 51st Field Hospital. On April 11, the 104th Infantry and the 3rd Armored Divisions liberated Nordhausen death camp, a subcamp of Mittlebau concentration camp, which they discovered nearby. [7] The conditions were used to motivate prisoners in other subcamps to work hard lest they be sent to die at Boelcke-Kaserne. African American Soldiers during World War II, Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center. period they were coming down by the hundreds on London and killed more than 104th Infantry Division . In December, the 104th was forced into defensive positions by German counterattacks, but in March 1945, the division entered the Rhineland and captured the city of Cologne. [8] After the arrival of 3,500 emaciated and ill prisoners from Gross-Rosen in mid-February, the SS decided to use the barracks compound to house prisoners who were no longer able to work,[7] since Dora had no gas chamber and transports to Bergen-Belsen could not be arranged. 9th Infantry Division . The hours were passing. The Journey of Private Galione 415B Liberator of Mittelbau Dora, Concentration Camp Nordhausen, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=104th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)&oldid=1147028721, Infantry divisions of the United States Army, United States Army divisions during World War II, Military units and formations established in 1921, Infantry divisions of the United States Army in World War II, Training divisions of the United States Army, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, "Nothing in Hell can stop the Timberwolves". On the afternoon of 3 April and again the next day, the Royal Air Force bombed Nordhausen; the sick barracks was nearly destroyed. weight of the other bodies piled on them had been too much for their starved, and combat-wise medics, and we thought there was nothing left in the books we The 104th Infantry Division formally activated with ceremonies at Camp Adair, Oregon. [24], Two additional provisional brigades were created under the 104th Division in 1999; the 8th Brigade, 104th Division was created at Fort Lewis as a unit for training Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets, and the 4690th US Army Reserve Forces School at Fort Shafter, Hawaii was redesignated as the 4690th Brigade, 104th Division, for service as a multifunctional training unit. (13) "United States of America v. Kurt Andrae et al. word Nordhausen brought us a mixed response of emotions. building. [19], The division returned to the United States on 3 July 1945. east. Hitler had hoped that the V2s - the "V" standing for "Vergeltung", meaning "Retaliation" in German - It was two miles in length, with two large made. TTY: 202.488.0406, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, The Holocaust and World War II: Key Dates, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center. The 5,000 victims here, dead and alive, were 104th Division (Institutional Training), HQ (to include: Headquarters (less detachment), 1st Brigade, 104th Division, 1st Battalion, 414th Regiment, 2d Battalion, 414th Regiment, 1st Battalion, 415th Regiment, 2d Battalion, 415th Regiment, 3d Battalion, 415th Regiment, 1043d Training Detachment, Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 104th Division, 1st Battalion, 104th Regiment, 2d Battalion, 104th Regiment, 3d Battalion, 104th Regiment, 4th Battalion, 104th Regiment, 5th Battalion, 104th Regiment, 1041st Training Detachment, U.S. Army Regional Training Site, Sacramento, Headquarters 4th Brigade, 104th Division, 6th Battalion, 104th Regiment, 7th Battalion, 104th Regiment, 8th Battalion, 104th Regiment, Detachment, 9th Battalion, 104th Regiment, Headquarters, 6th Brigade, 104th Division, 10 Battalion, 104th Regiment, 11th Battalion, 104th Regiment, Headquarters, 7th Brigade, 104th Division, 1st Battalion, 413th Regiment, 2d Battalion, 413th Regiment, 3d Battalion, 413th Regiment, Detachment, Headquarters, 8th Brigade, 104th Division, 3d Battalion, 414th Regiment, 104th Army Band. In October 1944, the SS made Dora-Mittelbau an independent concentration camp with more than 30 subcamps of its own. occurred. (3) Camp Mittelbau Dora was established The soldiers reacted in shock and disbelief to the evidence of Nazi atrocities. 'Concentration Camp.'. Requesting help from the 104th Infantry Division, the 3rd immediately begins transporting some 250 ill and starving prisoners to nearby hospital facilities. We saw in a concentration camp . Rosenbach was one of the fortunate few to survive Camp Mittelbau Dora. [40] Bernard Moore was a member of the 104th Timberwolves and went on to be the manager at the Waldorf Astoria Towers in New York, later promoted to the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC.[41]. under the casing were neatly piled about seventy-five bodies, a sight I could The 91st Infantry Division (famously nicknamed as the "Wild West Division" with a "Fir Tree" as its Division insignia to symbolize its traditional home of the Far West) is an infantry division of the United States Army that fought in World War I and World War II. [29] The 6th Brigade, 104th Division was activated at Aurora, Colorado. In July 1948, the division held its first session of summer training. Americans of similar background, on the eye witnessed horror stories of an even more sanguine genocide in Turkey three decades earlier. There was also a Gestapo-run Sonderlager ("special camp"), and other forced labor camps nearby, but these were not part of the Mittelbau-Dora complex. Washington, DC 20024-2126 for Jewish victims who were on the bottom of the insane Nazi scale of values. Since the first printing of TIMBERWOLF TRACKS in 1946 there have been subsequent editions printed At 1000 hours, the 684 officers and 1,435 enlisted men, then in the division, marched to the central parade grounds, and stood at attention before the speakers platform - - As the first notes of a bugle sounded the Division Commander's party reached the . In the building bedded on straw side about twenty-five men or half-men. value, put an enormous strain on the British public. Rows upon rows of skin-covered skeletons From where I was standing I could see a hidden tunnel coming out of the side of a mountain. Sobered and drained each of us eventually left the area, in the SS doctor Heinrich Schmidt was largely responsible for the inhuman conditions. [20] After a period of mopping up and consolidation, it participated in the trap of enemy troops in the Ruhr pocket. [15][18] By 14:30 on 13 April, all survivors had been removed from the camp. sanguine genocide in Turkey three decades earlier. by side in indescribable filth lay the emaciated living, too weak to move away Reports indicated that approximately one hundred bodies were cremated per day, But you know, when you are young, you can take an awful lot. Heinrich Schmidt and an SS guard were tried in 1947 in the Dora Trial at Dachau for abuses at Boelcke-Kaserne, but they were acquitted for lack of evidence. Workers were spared in the Division were rushed to the scene to give medical aid. [38] NFL Player Bob Shaw also served with the 104th and was awarded the Bronze Star during World War II. . There were lash marks on many of their scantily covered backs - definite proof Photo: US Holocaust Memorial Museum. [4][7], On 2 April, 3,000 prisoners were transported to the Mittelbau main camp and to Ellrich, a subcamp of Mittelbau. Otherwise, please send us your comments, stories, or any other information you wish to share.Please do not send anything obscene or offensive. The 104th Infantry Division was first constituted on 24 June 1921 as the 104th Division, before being organized and activated in October of that year in Salt Lake City, Utah. American personnel forced hundreds of German citizens from the nearby town of Nordhausen to bear witness to the atrocities, help evacuate the liberation of the camp: I am still amazed today that anyone survived. In almost all bunkers and buildings the living were found lying among the dead. Casualty figures for the 104th Infantry Division, European theater of operations: The nickname of the 104th Infantry Division, "Timberwolf," originated from the division's insignia, a gray timberwolf. [8] In 2005, the current Distinctive Unit Insignia was designed under the direction of Major General Terrill K. (TK) Moffett. Russian soldiers had told of a possible Nazi labor camp nearby, but ", Mittelbau Dora Survivors Commemorate Liberation - Reuters Press [1] The division was assigned to III Corps of the Ninth United States Army, part of the Twelfth United States Army Group. Along the division's front, the Germans were spread thinly and did not have continuous lines of defense. As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they found tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners in deplorable conditions. [10] On 1 April, there were 5,700 prisoners in the camp; the death rate approached one hundred per day. with our own wounded. Division saw and lived a story we shall never forget. Prisoners at Dora-Mittelbau had been forced to construct massive tunnels and work in underground factories producing V-2 rockets for the German military. I always thought this was not the end for me.(7). Activated in 1921, the division was created as an infantry unit with a focus on nighttime combat operations. Liberation of Achtmaal by the 415th Regiment of the 104th Inf.Div. 193-mile segment from the Rhine to Paderborn had taken only nine days with Too weak to 104thInfantry Division. Used as an overflow camp for sick and dying inmates from January 1945, numbers rose from a few hundred to over 6000, and the conditions saw up to 100 inmates die every day. The figure of 3,000 does not include the 2,250 sick and dying prisoners who were sent on an "annihilation transport" to. Up until the camp liberation, saw them. that the friend had been dead two or three days and unable to move his own It was designed by Charles Livingston Bull, artist and authority on wild life, and represents the northwest. The barracks was a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora Nazi concentration camp. Staring at the human debris on the ground awaiting burial (at Mittelbau) We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. TTY: 202.488.0406, The Holocaust and World War II: Key Dates, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center. Timberwolves with a glimpse into a manmade hell the likes of which few could have dreamed of. Massacre was the word here, Nordhausen "became the defining image of National Socialist camp terror" in many parts of the world. [28] Each of these brigades carried the history of other historic units which fought under the 104th Infantry Division in World War II. Article. Their corpses were found by the US Army units that liberated the camp on 11 April. limbs. (11) The U.S. Army rushed medical personnel, food, and equipment to the camp. Staring at the human debris on the Americans fought into Nordhausen. [15] By 7 November, the fighting in the Netherlands cost the Timberwolves 1,426 casualties, including 313 killed and 103 missing. While the bulk of the division moved near Aachen, Germany, elements remained to secure Moerdijk until 7 November, when they were relieved. Requesting help from the 104th Infantry Division, the 3rd immediately begins transporting some 250 ill and starving prisoners to nearby hospital facilities. Every so often, the floor would be hosed down in order to clean out the excrement. of beatings and floggings by their inhuman guards. [3][4] From 1942, parts of the barracks complex had housed forced laborers for Mabag, a company involved in arms production. I don't know what it was. As the 104th advanced into Thuringia, the unit overran Nordhausen and the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp on April 11, 1945. As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they found tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners in deplorable conditions. With a new addendum, the 2014 edition brings to close the NTA and the Activated in 1921 and deployed during World War II, the division saw almost 200 days of fighting in northwestern Europe as it fought through France, Netherlands, Belgium, and western Germany, fighting back several fierce German counterattacks as it advanced through the theater throughout late 1944 and 1945. Now we approached the cellar stairs leading to the French group. [18] After regrouping, it advanced to the east and crossed the Weser River on 8 April, blocking enemy exits from the Harz Mountains. on to direct the U.S. Space Program. been crushed by falling walls - yet he displayed remarkable discipline and [23], During World War II, soldiers of the division were awarded two Medals of Honor, 14 Distinguished Service Crosses, one Distinguished Service Medal, 642 Silver Star Medals, six Legion of Merit medals, 20 Soldier's Medals, 2,797 Bronze Star Medals, and 40 Air Medals. kept walking. the ground awaiting burial I asked myself, 'Is this what is meant by genocide? Visit . [23], In 1967, the division was reorganized. men too weak to move dead comrades from their side. I saw one man feebly stagger to Most of the bodies apparently lay untouched since We went to the stairs and The US Army forced about two thousand Germans from Nordhausen to bury the corpses in mass graves, a process which took until 16 April. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Troops found only a few survivors among the 3000 corpses who were cared for in a field hospital. and torture. being eaten away by diarrhea and malnutrition. forty-eight smaller tunnels. Nordhausen was liberated by the 104th US Infantry Division on April 12th, 1945. Meeting between Franklin D. 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The Nizkor Project, http://nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/camps/buchenwald/press/reuters.040395 (Oct. 24, 2009). Colonel Taggart called into action, early 12 April, the litter The 193 mile segment from the Rhine to the Paderborn had taken only nine days with captured Wehrmacht vehicles and even barnyard carts he had been in camp only three months. words of a poet a sadder but wiser man.(16). The Timberwolf division made contact with the advancing Soviet armed forces at the end of the month. factory and the camp, with German criminals as strawbosses. [19] During the Battle of the Bulge, the 104th actively defended its sector near Duren and Merken (in German only) from 15 December 1944 to 22 February 1945. me he had been kicked and beaten repeatedly. The Timberwolves knew they were there to help liberate the world from tyranny, of course, but personal hatred usually was not present. (14) Kenneth T. Downs, "Nothing Stopped the Timberwolves," The Saturday Evening Post (August 17, 1946): 20-43. The order was, "You will work." [14] A coordinated attack over the Mark River at Standdaarbuiten on 2 November established a bridgehead and the rest of the division crossed the river. never occurred. (4) The V2 was developed by Wernher von Braun, who after World War II went That's how I knew I had found something "big" that the Nazis were trying to keep secret. here, not in America or Russia." a sadder but wiser man. Rosenbach was sent to Auschwitz, then Buchenwald, and at age fifteen he found himself toiling at Mittelbau Dora. Hungarian Jewish Businessman Begins Issuing Papers to Jewish refugees, Allied Nations Issue Statement on Mass Murder. In November, the unit was already approaching the German city of Aachen. As part of an army-wide initiative known as the Reorganization Objective Army Division plan, the division's regiments were disbanded and replaced with larger and more versatile brigades. of them appeared to have been starved to such an extent that they were mere This changed after the The 104th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army. The 104th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army. After several decades, the division then expanded its role to conducting entry-level training for soldiers of all branches of the Army in the northwestern United States. their war experiences had instilled. In black forbidding nights and of the large factory areas of the city. Its role and size have expanded over that time due to the consolidation of other training commands, and the division subsequently took charge of a number of brigades specializing in various entry-level training for soldiers of all types. Today, it is known as the 104th Division (Leader Training) and based at Fort Lewis, Washington, as a training unit of the United States Army Reserve. As a result of the actions of the 104th and their Allied counterparts, the Scheldt Estuary was cleared. In the eight days from July 18 to July 25, 1918, the 104th Infantry was to pass through a crucible of fire and steel. Boelcke-Kaserne concentration camp (transl. [14], The division was reactivated on 1 December 1946 in the organized reserves in Portland, Oregon. Battle-hardened men of the 104th wept too. In the June-July Only later I thought of what I had seen. *(The V-1, V for The concentration camp prisoners were separated from the forced laborers by an electrified fence topped with barbed wire, and transported to work via a purpose-built railway spur. [5] Daily trains shuttled between Dora and Boelcke-Kaserne, bringing incapacitated prisoners and removing the corpses for cremation at Dora. Breaking out of the Remagen Bridgehead on 25 March, 1945, the 104th Infantry Division, as part of the U.S. VII Corps, was teamed with the 3rd Armored Division for a rapid advance of an eventual 375-mile penetration deep into the heart of central Germany. More The 10th Armored Division participated in major WWII campaigns and is recognized for liberating a subcamp of . attention and salute us as tears slowly trickled down his cheeks. December 1, 2009. In 1936, a Luftwaffe barracks complex, named after the World War I flying ace Oswald Boelcke, was constructed in the suburbs of the city of Nordhausen, Thuringia. and experiences, formed the National Timberwolf Association on October 19, 1945. 104th Division may refer to: 104th Division (1st Formation) (People's Republic of China), 1948-1951 104th Division (2nd Formation) (People's Republic of China), 1951-1955 104th Jger Division (Wehrmacht), a unit of the German Army 104th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 104th Infantry Division "Mantova", a unit of the Italian Army might be saved. [4][7], Beginning in late January, many Jewish prisoners in poor physical condition arrived at the Mittelbau-Dora complex from Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen. The division was instead centered on three infantry regiments; the 413th,[9] the 414th,[9] and 415th Infantry Regiments. Activated in 1942, the 104th Infantry Division landed in France in September 1944, a few months after the Allied invasion of western Europe on D-Day (June 6, 1944). (15) The men of the 104th certainly must have agreed. [18] The sector to the Mulde River was cleared by 21 April, and after vigorous patrolling, contacted the Red Army at Pretzsch on 26 April. (1) National Timberwolf Association, "Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp," 104th Infantry Division, http://www.104infdiv.org/concamp.htm (accessed Oct. 10, 2009). Jules Helfner's handwritten note on reverse of photo from Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. didn't know. On 11 April 1945 the Division was involved in the liberation of a large German concentration camp at Nordhausen. In the stress of one of the great, decisive battles in world history, many of these acts failed of proper recognition. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. [17] The 3rd Armored Division continued eastward and was replaced on the morning of 12 April by the 104th Infantry Division. The article recounts the heroic feats of the 104th as if recapping a college football game. I was exhausted because we had just gotten in from all those miles. He was comparatively healthy, as [8] By 1952, the division was turning out 1,500 new reservists per training camp. This terror weapon of little military These bodies showed many signs of beating, starvation acquitted.(13). In all, around 5,000 V2s were launched from sites along the English Channel, killing thousands of British civilians. in the camp had been worked, beaten and forced at top speed until they could of maneuver and bold night attacks and teamwork were outstanding and held casualties down to 1445 killed, 4801 wounded, 111 missing in action, for a total of 6357.(14). In addition, actor James G. Snitzer was a member of the 104th and died in combat in 1945. I asked myself, 'Is this what is meant by genocide? Note: The 104th Infantry Division liberated the camp on April 11, not March 27. This page last updated: 6 October, 20101999 National Timberwolf AssociationQuestions? [5] Additional prisoners arrived in June 1944 for forced labor with Junkers and in the Mittelwerk tunnel system, mostly for the production of V-1 and V-2 rockets. As an American of Armenian ancestry I had Despite these efforts, at least 59 former prisoners died of starvation and exhaustion. With care, he was lifted upon a litter and taken to our waiting I followed the trains all the way down, for miles, and found a train car filled with dead [18] Eschweiler fell on 21 November and the enemy was cleared from the area west of the Inde River, including Inden by 2 December 1944. The 104th Infantry Division discovered approximately 3,000 corpses He recounted his experience in a 1995 article by Richard Murphy marking the fiftieth anniversary of the of the Timberwolves will endure. Story. Sobered and drained each of us eventually left the area, in the words of a poet skeletons wrapped in skin. fellow infantrymen teamed up with the 3rd Armored Division beating back the Nazis and gaining a 375 mile penetration deep into the heart of Germany. Would that it was possible to take the doubters by the hand, back Within a six month period, the labor camp had grown to contain 12,000 prisoners, and by the spring of 1945, the number of prisoners neared 40,000.(6). The swollen, bulging feet; they had no shoes and they were unbelievably dirty. Vengeance, was the pilotless radio-controlled aircraft carrying a any serious impressions at the moment. patients, set up improvised hospital wards, and feed many mouths without help. villages like Holzhausen, Niederingelbach, Dalwigsthal, Strasseberbach & . been brought up, as have virtually all first and second generation Americans of the impact of events. For the next two days, the Timberwolves pursued enemy remnants north to the Meuse. responsible for the operation of Mittelbau Dora Camp. Easier to pronounce, but impossible to forget, reported to be a few living 'beings', and with quick medical attention some Its crematory, though small, was able to convert 100 of yesterday's men to a Includes over 20 photographs and a glossary. French survivor Jean Mialet is quoted as stating "This is what hell must be like" when speaking of Mittelbau Dora. [2] Populated mostly with officers through the Reserve Officers Training Corps from colleges and universities in its allotted states, the division remained basically an officer cadre with few enlisted men, and would not see significant duty until World War II.[8]. Photo courtesy of NARA. This was the only combat duty that the 104th Infantry Division has served during its history. high-explosive bomb, put into operation a week after D-Day. The 5th Brigade, 104th Division was activated at Salt Lake City, Utah. More than 3,000 prisoners were forced into an area of only 1,800 square metres (19,000sqft). The liberation of Camp Mittelbau Dora provided the Prisoners at Dora-Mittelbau had been forced to construct massive tunnels and work in underground factories producing V-2 rockets for the German military. met our eyes. The camp was liberated on April 11, 1945, by the soldiers in the Sixth Armored. The US Army immediately had the prisoners transported out of the camp so that they could be treated by physicians. [21] The division then crossed the Saale River and took Halle in a bitter five-day struggle from 15 to 19 April. My Grandmother's cousin, Jack Biolchini bore witness to the aftermath of the atrocities committed by the Nazi's at Camp Mittelbau Dora. 1945, the 104th Infantry Division, as part of the U.S. VII Corps, was teamed A large number of Jews were to come later as the camps in the East were being emptied and slave labor was needed in manufacturing camps such as A new subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp was thus founded: the Arbeitslager Dora (Dora labour camp), as it was officially designated by the SS. There were others, in dark cellar rooms, lying in disease and filth, [32] In 2005, the Base Realignment and Closure suggestions included the closure of the Vancouver Barracks, and the 104th Division was subsequently relocated to Fort Lewis, Washington. The division trained in the northwestern United States during the next two years, earning its name "Timberwolf Division" from its time in the area. The US 104th Infantry and 3rd Armored Division liberated Dora-Mittelbau on April 11, 1945, but found only a few prisoners. similar background, on the eye witnessed horror stories of an even more I was accosted by a less emaciated prisoner who asked The 10th Armored Division during World War II. [14] During this time, the division was reassigned to VII Corps of the U.S. 1st Army, also part of the Twelfth Army Group. Galione-Nahas, Mary. Note: The 104th . news that we were needed to evacuate patients from a concentration camp in one
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