People believed it was a privilege to die for your country, but after the debacle of the war they never felt the same again.

人们曾相信为国捐躯是一种荣幸，但是经过战争的彻底失败，他们再也不这样想了。

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But one day opponents on the brink of war might be tempted to use it to exchange information without having to kill and die for it.

但也许有一天，敌方被逼到无路可退时会忍不住用这种软件来交换信息，这样就不用以死伤为代价得到这些信息。

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For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping something had been left, Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled.

我的那些可能遭受人们讥笑嘲讽的快乐，那些早已被人们遗弃我却为之哭泣的人啊，如今你们都死去了吧，我想说的是那些依然被掩藏的事实，战争中被蒸馏掉的怜悯。

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We are against any war where black soldiersare sent to the front line to die for a countrythat hates them.

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Both were tried for war crimes and initially sentenced to die by hanging until their commutations in 1948.

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The two Berga commanders -- Erwin Metz and his superior, Hauptmann Ludwig Merz -- were tried for war crimes and initially sentenced to die by hanging.

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