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Forty-seven years ago today, a friendly-seeming young couple asked Lesley to help them carry their shopping home. It was a different time in Britain in that era, and few suspected that strangers trying to take small children home might have ill intentions. Those who knew the strangers in question would have raised an eyebrow - Britain was not a place that took kindly to edgelord Nazis - but then, that is why they made sure their friends weren't watching when they invited Lesley into their car. Nazis deal with the record of Nazi atrocities in many different ways. Some pretend to believe they never happened. Some (including most of the prior group, when pressed) pretend Hitler was forced into it and had no real choice, or that it wasn't so bad, or that the Allies somehow did it. (They will usually turn around the next day and go back to pretending they think it never happened, of course.) Some go to the trouble of finding exaggerated accounts, or even fabricating exaggerated accounts, so they can 'debunk' them. There is another approach Nazis take to the historical record, though - usually in private, when they don't have so many outsiders around. Some do not consider the records of the concentration camps an embarrassment to be explained away, or simply a banal everyday atrocity that can be excused because the Soviets had gulags. Some consider the extermination camps inspiring on their own merits. The couple who took Lesley home were very much in the last group - their idea of a romantic night's activity to get in the mood for sex was reading each other accounts of Auschwitz. Lesley was not the first child they raped and murdered. She was, however, the first (and, thankfully, only) girl in the age range they really wanted. She would never see her eleventh birthday. When National Socialists virtue signal about ensuring a future for White children, remember what kind of future some of them are planning.