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Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 29 12:18:22 CST 2001
Terrance wrote:
>
> Trotha gave not quarter, held no quarter, he waged a war of
> extermination. It was not until the Germans living in
> settlement negotiated with Trotha to stop killing everyone,
> women, children, and everything, all cattle, because they
> had a shortage of labor and Trotha was wiping out the
> "property" that a deal was struck, some prisoners would be
> granted life and labor, but they could not be paid for it.
> Still, Trotha was determined (in V. page 254 to be as Jesus
> returning to earth, to deliver) to kill them all.
The abortion "problem" was also a matter of labor, future
"property" and labor. The women that were healthy enough to
become pregnant aborted.
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