If Frau Rasch, in the last and fullest days of her husband's power in Brno, had idly-during a party, say; a musical recital at the castle-gazed into the core of the diamond that had come to her from Oskar Schindler, she would have seen reflected there the worst incubus from her own dreams and her Führer's. An armed Marxist Jew.
("Schindler's List")
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