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MAG 95 - Absent Without Leave

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The Last Days of the Second World War

Ildude-Jai, like my father, served for the king. I wasn't happy he had thrown his lot in with the fascists but loyalty was always a failing of mine. True battle was worse than I could have imagined. For all our leadership hungered for war they had little idea it seemed how to wage it. When the king broke with the fascists and signed the armistice with the Allies, our erstwhile German companions wasted no time turning on us. We spent the last two years of the war in a Nazi prison camp. But this is not what happened after we were released that brings me to tell you my story. You cannot imagine the chaos immediately after the

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