"In their desperation, they came up with a plan of having the daughters chaperoned by the very neighbor who had denounced their father and who was taking the same train to testify against him. I found this hard to believe and asked my mother several times, and later an aunt, but that's how they all told the story. The trial was the typical ritual of humiliation. My great-grandfather, who had been in prison for over a year by then, had his belt taken away while Freisler ordered him to stand at attention, so that his pants fell to the floor."
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