Embellishments and Falsehoods
After the war, Bendetsen's claims of his importance to the army and role in the war grew, while admissions of his role in the internment shrank.
Over the years, he made many contradictory claims, each apparently intended to impress his audience. Others were made to hide his Jewish ancestry.
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“Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent’s shadow. Our mother’s faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.”
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