Real-life gangster Petras Dominas as depicted by Edwin Marian in the East German film Die Dominas-Bande (1968).

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“Germans commit crimes, too.”
“That’s my point. We have enough idiots of our own, we don’t need to import more.”
“I disagree.”
— An actual conversation between the author and one of her liberal friends

In all my years of biographical research, this might be the strangest case I’ve ever come across — next to the case of Mac Wenner, the guy who fell or jumped out of the bathroom window of a plane without anyone noticing it.