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"Stand firm! Face the bullets! " With these words, Ernst had encouraged his men to the last. My own experience illustrated them.
For a considerable time, I did not know what had happened, either to me or to those about me. I only knew that I lay behind a white curtain with blue flowers, and could not keep my eyes open for any length of time. The flowers assumed all sorts of odd shapes, and the fantastic figures seemed to be ever changing and rushing towards me.