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4.74sMost of the surviving American pilots were taken to POW camps,
2.75sbut for some reason, they thought I was gay,
2.8sso I was taken to Dachau.
2.32sBehind the walls of the prison camp,
4.2sthere was one guard who decided everyone's fate.
3.1sIf he pointed to the left, you did hard labor.
3.57sIf he pointed to the right, you died.
3.8sThat man was Franz Schlechtnacht.
3.9sI was spared death, but I was given hard labor.
2.77sHe made me sort the camp recyclables.
3.4sBut some of those bottles still had a little bit of soda in them.
3.57sIt would spill out on my hands and make them kind of sticky.
3.7sDear God, how my hands would get kind of sticky!
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