{"id":2348,"date":"2025-07-13T21:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfeed99.com\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:21:38","slug":"the-inspiring-story-of-nicholas-winton-the-british-schindler-who-rescued-669-children-from-the-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfeed99.com\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"The Inspiring Story Of Nicholas Winton, The \u2018British Schindler\u2019 Who Rescued 669 Children From The Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"dek\">In 1939, Nicholas Winton helped arrange train transport, foster homes, and sometimes even forged visa documents for hundreds of Czech children so they&#8217;d be safe from the Holocaust.<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_108770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108770 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nicholas-winton-holding-child.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nicholas-winton-holding-child.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nicholas-winton-holding-child-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nicholas-winton-holding-child-768x575.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Nicholas Winton\" width=\"900\" height=\"674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108770\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Yad Vashem Photo Archives\/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Nicholas Winton holds a rescued boy being taken from Prague to London in early 1939.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"dropcaps\">It was the spring of 1954 and Nicholas Winton was in the middle of an ultimately fruitless campaign for a seat on the borough council of Maidenhead, England, a small city west of London. His campaign leaflet included basic voting information, a photo of himself, a three-paragraph appeal to voters, and, at the bottom, a section labeled \u201cPersonal Details.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CJiOosDhuo4DFdtNpAQdS6If7g\">\n<p>Buried in the middle of that section \u2014 after mentions of Winton\u2019s achievements in local politics and business, and before mentions of his fencing and air force service \u2014 was the following line: \u201cAfter Munich evacuated 600 refugee children from Czechoslovakia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Maidenhead voters, along with virtually anyone beyond Maidenhead\u2019s borders, may have given this line little notice. Yet those eight words contained an incredible story of courage and selflessness.<\/p>\n<p>This is the inspiring true story of Nicholas Winton\u2019s astonishing heroics during one of modern history\u2019s darkest moments.<\/p>\n<h2>Nicholas Winton, \u201cThe British Schindler\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Between December 1938 and September 1939, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/world-war-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War II<\/a>\u00a0looming, Nicholas Winton and his associates managed to save the lives of at least 669 children from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/life-in-nazi-germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nazis<\/a>\u00a0in Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_474041\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-474041 post-img-portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nicholas-winton-memorial.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nicholas-winton-memorial.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nicholas-winton-memorial-248x300.jpeg 248w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nicholas-winton-memorial-745x900.jpeg 745w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nicholas-winton-memorial-768x928.jpeg 768w\" alt=\"Nicholas Winton Memorial\" width=\"800\" height=\"967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-474041\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-474041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Wikimedia Commons<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">A memorial to Nicholas Winton at the Prague main railway station, the stage for his heroics during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But you\u2019d never quite glean that from the event\u2019s oblique mention in Winton\u2019s campaign leaflet 15 years later. Likewise, it would be a further 34 years before the international media spotlight would find Winton and bring him tributes, statues, and nicknames like \u201cthe British Schindler\u201d \u2014 all of which Winton himself ultimately shied away from.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a stance befitting a man who believed, as he told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/nov\/09\/british-schindler-nicholas-winton-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in 2014, that in the adage, \u201cSome people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them,\u201d he fell in the final category.<\/p>\n<p>The event that spurred Nicholas Winton\u2019s rescue mission makes it easier to see why he placed himself in that category. Indeed, the story of his rescue mission began with a single phone call and a ski trip that never happened.<\/p>\n<h2>With The Holocaust Looming, Nicholas Winton Takes Action<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_108753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108753 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nicholas-winton.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nicholas-winton.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nicholas-winton-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nicholas-winton-768x524.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Nicholas Winton In 2007\" width=\"900\" height=\"614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108753\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">MICHAL CIZEK\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Nicholas Winton sitting backstage at the Congress Centre in Prague on Oct. 9, 2007, before receiving honors for his rescue efforts that saved hundreds of children from the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In December 1938, Nicholas Winton \u2014 then working as a stockbroker in London, to which his German Jewish parents had emigrated 30 years earlier \u2014 was set to fly to Switzerland for a ski vacation. But then, he received an unexpected request from a friend named Martin Blake \u2014 and one that would come to shape the arc of Winton\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Already aiding the mostly Jewish refugees in the western region of Czechoslovakia that had just been annexed by Germany, Blake knew that things would only get worse. That\u2019s why he asked Winton to fly not to Switzerland, but to the Czech capital of Prague instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn an impulse,\u201d as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/02\/world\/europe\/nicholas-winton-is-dead-at-106-saved-children-from-the-holocaust.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0describes it, Winton agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t bother to bring your skis,\u201d Blake said.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, Nicholas Winton was off to Czechoslovakia. He quickly found himself aghast at the conditions in the refugee camps and appalled at the thought that their inhabitants, due to the European immigration restrictions for Jews, would likely never be able to migrate to safety abroad.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_108757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108757 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/thomas-bermann.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/thomas-bermann.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/thomas-bermann-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/thomas-bermann-768x512.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Thomas Bermann\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108757\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Geoff Caddick\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Thomas Bermann, one of the children saved by Nicholas Winton, displays his original British identity document during the 70th anniversary celebration of the rescue efforts at Liverpool Street Station in London on Sept. 4, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite British efforts to pull child refugees (adult refugees were still restricted by British law) out of Germany and Austria, there was no such effort in Czechoslovakia, which was just then sinking into Nazi clutches. But Winton \u2014 along with associates like Blake, Trevor Chadwick, and Bill Barazetti \u2014 would not let the Czech children go overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Winton and company then set up an office in Prague, where they took appointments with thousands of distraught parents. Each arrived in an attempt to arrange safe transport abroad for their children, knowing that if those arrangements were made, they\u2019d likely never see their children again.<\/p>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CPSandjhuo4DFVYpBgAdqRI4bQ\">\n<h2>The Treacherous Journey Out Of Nazi Territory<\/h2>\n<p>With so many parents lining up, the Nazis took notice and began following Nicholas Winton and harassing him and his associates. But quick thinking and a few well-placed bribes kept the rescuers\u2019 operation afloat.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t the only time that Winton resorted to slippery tactics in order to do the just thing inside an unjust system.<\/p>\n<p>With over 900 outbound children registered on Winton\u2019s list, it was time to secure their entry into England, as well as residences there (with volunteer foster parents who put up about $1,700 as a kind of deposit intended to fund the child\u2019s trip back to his or her homeland when the time was right). When the slow-to-respond British Home Office didn\u2019t come through with the entry visas, Nicholas Winton and company forged the documents.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_474042\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-474042 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sir-nicholas-george-winton.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sir-nicholas-george-winton.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sir-nicholas-george-winton-300x260.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sir-nicholas-george-winton-768x666.jpeg 768w\" alt=\"Sir Nicholas George Winton\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-474042\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-474042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Wikimedia Commons<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Nicholas Winton saved hundreds of children from the Holocaust and told virtually no one for 50 years \u2014 until a surprise televised reunion brought him back together with some of the former refugees in 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pbh-lazy-inline pbh_inline\" data-loader=\"revLoader\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1752441547144-4\" data-google-query-id=\"CP6s4dzhuo4DFYZbhAYdUZk7gQ\">\n<p>No matter the challenges or legally dubious means, Nicholas Winton and his associates managed to snap every piece into place by March 14, 1939, when the first train carrying rescued refugees left Prague.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the train traveled northwest through central Germany and into the Netherlands, where boats waited to ferry the children across the North Sea to England. That first train carried just 20 children. The following seven trains would carry many, many more of these young refugees.<\/p>\n<h2>The Heartbreaking Stories Of The Children Whom Nicholas Winton Rescued<\/h2>\n<p>But as heartening as each train\u2019s departure was, it was also tragic. The train platforms were filled with sobbing parents saying goodbye to their children, and bracing themselves for the awful fate that their children were escaping.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some parents didn\u2019t cry \u2014 and those stories are perhaps even more heartbreaking. As one man who Nicholas Winton saved later recalled:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy parents, in order to get me on the train, misled me into believing I was going on an adventure, a holiday to stay with my Uncle Hans Popper in Folkestone (England). They did not even cry and suppressed their emotions to not alarm me. I had no idea that it was the last time I would see my father alive and that they were destined to the hellhole of Auschwitz.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_474048\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-474048 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kindertransport.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kindertransport.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kindertransport-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kindertransport-768x538.jpeg 768w\" alt=\"Kindertransport\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-474048\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-474048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Wikimedia Commons<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Jewish children from Poland arriving in London in February 1939 as part of the wider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/kindertransport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kindertransport<\/a>\u00a0rescue effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zuzana Mare\u0161ov\u00e1, one of the children Nicholas Winton rescued and one of the very few whose parents survived the war and were thus able to see their child again, likewise\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jan\/27\/children-saved-from-nazis-british-schindler-memorial-kindertransport-nicholas-winton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recounted<\/a>\u00a0harrowing scenes at the train station:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAll of the parents were crying and waving. I can still see them today. I can remember the parents\u2019 hands up and our noses pressed to the glass and that gave me the idea of the parting. The most frequently uttered sentence along the platform was, \u2018See you soon.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scenes like these would play out upon the departure of all eight Winton trains, the last in early August. The ninth was set to depart on September 1st. But it was that day that Germany invaded Poland and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/world-war-2-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War II<\/a>\u00a0began.<\/p>\n<p>The storm that Winton and his allies had long seen coming had finally arrived. Its effects were swift, brutal, and heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin hours of the announcement, the train disappeared,\u201d Winton said in 2015. \u201cNone of the 250 children aboard was ever seen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had 250 families waiting at Liverpool Street that day in vain,\u201d Winton\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/wintons-children-saved-holocaust-britains-schindler-349997?rx=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recalled<\/a>. \u201cIf the train had been a day earlier, it would have come through.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_108758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108758 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/winton-flowers.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/winton-flowers.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/winton-flowers-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/winton-flowers-768x528.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Nicky's Family Premiere\" width=\"900\" height=\"619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108758\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">MICHAL CIZEK\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Nicholas Winton holding flowers that were given to him in tribute at the premiere of\u00a0<em>Nicky\u2019s Family<\/em>, a docudrama about his rescue efforts, in Prague on Jan. 20, 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But while most if not all of those children \u2014 and as many as 1.5 million others \u2014 died during the Holocaust, Nicholas Winton\u2019s legacy rests upon the 669 or more children he saved from the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>That legacy, however, took decades to fully come to light.<\/p>\n<h2>Nicholas Winton Insists He \u201cWasn\u2019t Heroic\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Though Nicholas Winton\u2019s wife, Grete Gjelstrup, and a few others knew of Winton\u2019s deeds, he largely kept them out of the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>In 1983, for instance, Winton\u2019s generous charity work for an elderly assistance organization was what granted him membership in the Order of the British Empire \u2014 not his actions during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>But everything changed in 1988, when Gjelstrup rummaged about the family attic and uncovered Winton\u2019s hidden scrapbook, which was filled with the names and photos of the children he saved. Winton brushed it off, even suggesting that she throw the scrapbook away. Gjelstrup refused. \u201cYou can\u2019t throw those papers away,\u201d she insisted. \u201cThey are children\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Gjelstrup not throw the papers away, she shared them with a Holocaust historian. This soon led to international media coverage and, over the ensuing three decades, a long list of honors and memorials bestowed upon him from several national governments (along with a planet, which two Czech astronomers named after him when they discovered it in 1998).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_108759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108759 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/winton-queen.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/winton-queen.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/winton-queen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/winton-queen-768x512.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Nicholas Winton Meets Queen Elizabeth II\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108759\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-108759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Chris Jackson\/Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Nicholas Winton meets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/queen-elizabeth-ww2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>\u00a0at Devlin Castle Hotel in Slovakia on Oct. 23, 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But through it all, Nicholas Winton remained modest about his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/holocaust-heroes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heroics during the Holocaust<\/a>. \u201cIt gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years,\u201d he told\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0in 2014. \u201cIt turned out to be remarkable, but it didn\u2019t seem remarkable when I did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of keeping the spotlight upon himself, Winton preferred to champion Doreen Warriner and Trevor Chadwick, his associates who remained on the ground in Prague even after Winton had gone back to England. \u201cI wasn\u2019t heroic because I was never in danger,\u201d he told\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>The\u00a0<em>That\u2019s Life<\/em>\u00a0Appearance That Shared Nicholas Winton\u2019s Story With The World<\/h2>\n<p>Nevertheless, the tributes for Nicholas Winton rolled in until his death at the age of 106 on July 1, 2015, the anniversary of the largest of all the evacuations that he had arranged 76 years before (241 children).<\/p>\n<p>Even today, new Winton tributes continue to emerge. Yet of all the thanks and honors he ever received, the one that still most captivates the public and best puts a human face on his heroism is the one that helped initiate the original media storm shortly after his wife found his scrapbook in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>The producers of the BBC program\u00a0<em>That\u2019s Life<\/em>\u00a0had invited Winton to sit in the audience for a show without quite telling him why \u2014 or that some of the very people whom he had rescued from the Holocaust when they were children a half-century ago would be joining him in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1939, Nicholas Winton helped arrange train transport, foster homes, and sometimes even forged visa documents for hundreds of Czech children so they&#8217;d be safe from the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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