These were the things that German soldiers forced prisoners in the Pink Triangle to do for their pleasure.
Now hold on tight, the music is about to start, but you won’t be in the mood for dancing. I’m going to kill them today. My boy, you will suffer. Part One: The Casting of Hell and the Shoes of Satin Dust. December 24, 1944, snow fell to the ground, covering the mud, the corpses, and the barbed wire with a single, pristine white blanket. It was Christmas.
For the thirty thousand men who died in the barracks, Christmas meant nothing more than a more biting cold and a soup ration even thinner than usual. But for the SS officers, Christmas was sacred. It was the festival of lights, the festival of the Germanic family, and an opportunity to celebrate lavishly.
Adrien had been standing at attention on the parade ground for two hours. He could no longer feel his feet. Before the war, he had been 23 years old. He was one of the rising stars of the Paris Opera Ballet. He had a body made for flight, for grace, for soaring. How many kilograms did he weigh today? His body was now just a mass of water, protruding from beneath gray skin covered in wounds and lice.
He wore the pink triangle, the symbol of the inverts, whom the Reich considered biological errors that had to be corrected through work until death. The roll call dragged on. The camp commandant wasn’t looking for quarry workers today. He was looking for something else. He paced the ranks, accompanied by his dog and two other officers who were laughing softly.
They weren’t looking at the muscles, they were looking at the faces, they were looking at the hands. They stopped in front of Adrien. The commander, a man with a round, pink face that contrasted sharply with the prisoners’ thinness, raised his riding crop and lifted Adrien’s chin. “Well, well, a Frenchman.” He turned to his second-in-command. “He has delicate, almost feminine features. Don’t you think so, Hans?”
Rikana, the second-in-command, replied: “It’s a 175, Commander. It’s a fly swatter in its nature.”
The commander smiled. “Perfect. What did you do in your previous life? Number 112400. Were you a hairdresser, a tailor?”
Adrien hesitated. Telling the truth was dangerous. Lying was even worse. “I was a dancer, a soloist at the opera.”
The commander’s eyes lit up with a perverse gleam. “Wonderful dancer, providence is spoiling us tonight.” He snapped his fingers. “Step out of line.” Adrien took an unsteady step forward. Six other men joined him. They all wore the pink triangle. They were all slender, or he had insisted on it before the camp broke them.
There was a Polish violinist named Marek, a young Berlin actor, and other boys with delicate faces, whose faces had been morbidly angelic by hunger. “Listen to me carefully,” the commandant announced, “tonight is New Year’s Eve. We officers will celebrate the Reich’s impending victory.” But a party without music and entertainment is no party at all.
He paused, savoring the effect of his words. “You will be our guests. You will play, you will dance, and if you entertain us well, you will eat. Real food, roasts, cake.” A murmur rippled through the group. The word “eat.” The sound resonated louder than any threat. For a piece of cake, a man of principle would have sold his soul.
“But be careful!” the commandant added, lowering his voice. “We are among men tonight. Our wives have stayed home. We therefore need female escorts.” He pointed his riding crop at Adrien. “You, the dancer, will be the queen of the ball. Take her to the showers, clean her up, and bring the costume chest. The one we got from the Munich theater.”
Adrien felt a violent wave of nausea rising within him. He groaned. This wasn’t a concert; it was a masquerade, a public humiliation, orchestrated for the sadistic pleasure of drunken gentlemen. They were led to the attendants’ baths. The hot water flowed over their skeletal bodies. It was divine, and yet it was the prelude to horror.
Then the clothes were brought in—not clean uniforms, but dresses, velvet gowns, silk dresses, wigs, exaggerated makeup, stolen theatrical costumes. “Hey girls!” a guard shouted, throwing a red evening gown without any green trim in front of Adrien. “Make yourselves look nice for the commander. If any of you aren’t convincing, you’ll be behind the barbed wire before midnight.”
Adrien examined the dress. He examined his calloused hands, his legs covered in bruises. He had to dress as a woman. He had to become a caricature of a woman to amuse his tormentors. It was the total denial of his identity, his art, his humanity. He met the gaze of Marek, the violinist, who pressed his instrument against his chest like a pathetic shield.
Marek wept silently. Adrien took the dress. He had no choice. He had to dance to survive. He began to put it on. The cold fabric slid over his skin. The waltzes were about to begin. In the next part, we will witness the grotesque transformation. We will see these skeletal men forced to apply makeup, to rehearse waltz steps with bleeding feet under the watchful eyes of the guards, while the ballroom is prepared.
The tension is mounting. They know that one wrong move means summary execution. Tell me, how far would you go for a piece of bread? Would you have the strength to dance with the devil? There is something more terrifying than nudity in a concentration camp, and that is disguise. Nudity reveals the misery of the body, but costume mocks that misery.
In the annex with the cold showers, Adrien and his six unfortunate companions underwent a hallucinatory transformation. Under the mocking gazes of three SS guards, he began to dress as if for a premiere at the Opéra Garnier. Except that here the dressing rooms smelled of mold and chlorine, and the costume designers wore pistols on their belts.
Adrien held the red dress in his trembling hands. It was a taffeta ball gown, probably stolen from a wealthy Jewish woman before her deportation. He put it on. The cold fabric slid over his prominent cowlicks. The dress was made for a woman with a voluptuous figure. On him, it hung pitifully, emphasizing the tragic absence of flesh.
His collarbones, sharp as razor blades, jutted out of the neckline. “Suck in your waist!” a guard shouted, tossing a leather belt to another prisoner. “It needs to create a nice silhouette, so we’ll tighten the belt.” Adrien stifled a cry. The pressure on his ribs, weakened by months of calcium deprivation, was unbearable.
He felt as if he were breaking in two. Then came the face-painting phase. On a rough wooden table, the guards had laid out lightbulbs, lipstick pencils, and rice powder. “Come on, you sweethearts,” the youngest SS officer sneered, “hide these corpse-like faces from me. I want to see life. I want to see luxury.” Adrien picked up a wine-red pencil.
He approached a piece of broken mirror leaning against the wall. The image he saw filled him with disgust. It wasn’t him. It was neither man nor woman. It was a gargoyle. Its eyes, sunken in black sockets with exhaustion, stared back at him in horror. He applied lipstick to his chapped lips. The contrast between the obscenely bright color and his gray skin was unbearable.
He looked like a sad clown, painted by a madman. Beside him, the young Berlin actor wept silently. His mascara ran down his cheeks, leaving two black streaks. The guard approached and struck him hard. “Smack! No tears,” he barked. “If you cry, you’ll ruin the makeup. And if you ruin the makeup, I’ll make you redo your portrait with my boot. Smile!” The young man swallowed his sobs and twisted his mouth into a terrified grimace.
Meanwhile, Marek, the violinist, tuned his instrument. His fingers were numb with cold. He frantically rubbed his hands together, trying to regain some dexterity. He knew: if he played a wrong note, it wouldn’t be the audience booing, but the dogs that would bite him.
“Rehearsal!” ordered the chief of guards. In this cramped space, under the harsh light of a bare bulb, the saddest spectacle in the world began. Marek started the opening bars of a waltz by Strauss, “The Blue Danube,” music made for gilded Viennese salons, here played by a ghost for costumed dancers. Adrien stepped forward.
He wore high-heeled shoes that had been found in the chest. They were too small. His toes were curled and squashed. Every step was torture. He was supposed to dance with another prisoner, a tall boy named Thomas, who had been forced into an oversized tuxedo and a dented top hat. “One, two, three, one, two, three,” Adrien counted in a low voice.
He tried to rediscover his reflexes as a dancer—the posture, the lightness of touch—but his body no longer responded. His muscles had atrophied. His legs trembled with exertion. He tripped over the hem of his dress. The guard slammed his baton against the floor. “No grace left. You look like a cow in a field. I want to see passion.”
They started over and over again. For 30 minutes, sweat trickled from beneath the synthetic wigs that scratched against their shaved heads. The smell of cheap powder mingled with the scent of fear and unwashed bodies. Adrien felt his heart racing. Not from the exertion, but from the anticipation.
He knew this rehearsal was nothing compared to what awaited them. On the other side of the wall, in the officers’ mess, they heard the sounds of celebration: the roar of voices, the clinking of glasses, the patriotic songs. The monsters were drunk, and drunk monsters are unpredictable. Finally, the door opened.
A wave of heat, the smell of cigars and roast meat, penetrated the icy corridor. An officer appeared, his face red, a glass of champagne in his hand. “Are you ready?” he asked, belching. “Commendable and splendid! Hail to the Führer!” replied the guard with a knowing smile. The officer surveyed the group of wretched transvestites.
He burst into a malicious laugh. “Oh, that’s perfect! It’s absolutely grotesque. The commander will love it. Come on, ladies, step onto the stage!” Adrien exchanged one last glance with Marek. In the violinist’s eyes, he read a silent prayer. “Let’s do it. Survive. See you tonight.” Adrien raised his head. He summoned what little dignity he had left.
He wouldn’t dance for her. He would dance against her. They crossed the threshold. The blinding light of the chandeliers struck them with full force. In the next part, we enter the lion’s den. The banquet is in full swing. Adrien and his companions must serve, dance, and endure the groping of drunken officers, while Marek plays to drown out the sounds of humiliation.
The tension becomes unbearable as the commander decides to choose his favorite. The double doors swing open, and Adrien felt as if he’d been physically slapped. It wasn’t a slap, it was a wave of heat, noise, and smell. A thick smell for a hungry man: the smell of roast meat, braised red cabbage, light tobacco, and alcoholic sweat.
The officers’ room was decorated for Christmas. Fir branches adorned the walls, red ribbons hung from the chandelier. In the background, a huge portrait of the Führer watched over the scene at the long U-shaped tables; fifty SS officers sat there. Their collars were unbuttoned. Their faces were red and shiny.
They swam in obscene opulence, just meters from the barracks where men died in silence. When Adrien and his troupe of skeletal transvestites entered, the murmur of voices abruptly ceased. Then an explosion of laughter shook the room. It wasn’t joyful laughter; it was a collective bark, a howl of contempt.
“Look at this!” shouted an angry battalion leader, pointing his pitchfork at the circus. “How beautiful!” chimed in another. “Hans, I think the redhead in the red dress has her eye on you.” The commander stood up, a crystal glass in his hand. He made a theatrical gesture to demand silence.
“Gentlemen, here are your appointments for this evening. Treat them with all the gallantry of Germany. What a merit!” He turned to Marek, the violinist, who stood trembling in a corner. “Music, a Viennese waltz!” And then Marek placed his bow on the strings. His hands, blue from the cold showers, miraculously found the strength to play. The first notes of the blue beauty were pure green.
Unreal, Adrien grasped Thomas’s sweaty hand. “Let’s go,” he murmured. “Don’t fall!” They began to spin. It was a terrifying spectacle: emaciated men, made up like cheap prostitutes, attempting to twirl gracefully in oversized dresses. Their movements were jerky and stiff. The sharp clacking of ill-fitting heels on the parquet floor could be heard.
The officers clapped their hands in rhythm and chanted, “One, two, three.” They tossed them pieces of bread and chicken bones, like throwing peanuts at monkeys in a zoo. Adrien got a piece of bread crust right in the face. He had to fight the overwhelming urge to pounce and eat it, but he kept smiling.
That painted-on grin was his only protection. Suddenly, the rhythm changed. The officers stood up. He no longer wanted to just watch. He wanted to participate. A blond giant approached the Berlin actor and another prisoner. It was a brutal separation. “I’ll take this one,” he growled, grabbing the young actor by the waist. The officer’s hand, broad as a paddle, crushed the prisoner’s fragile waist.
He pulled him closer. The contrast was terrifying: the pristine black uniform against the grimy silk dress, raw violence against utter exhaustion. Adrien saw the commander approaching. Adrien’s heart stopped. The lord of the place, the man who held the power of life and death over ten thousand souls, was coming to demand his dance.
Thomas was sent flying with a shoulder thrust. Adrien found himself alone before the monsters. “Will you grant me this dance, miss?” the commander asked with icy irony. He didn’t wait for an answer. He grabbed Adrien’s right hand. His palm was hot and moist. His other hand rested on Adrien’s lower back, just above the slit in the red dress.
Adrien smelled the scent of his breath, a blend of fine cognac and peppermint tea. They began to spin. The commander was a good dancer. He led confidently, pulling Adrien into a dizzying whirl. “You’re light,” the commander whispered in his ear. “Like a feather. You’re not being fed enough, sweetie.”
He tightened his grip, his fingers digging into Adrien’s thin flesh. “You know, I’ve seen some tough guys in Paris,” he continued in a conversational, worldly tone. “Swan Lake, I love beauty. That’s why I hate what you are. You’re an insult to beauty, a piece of trash who thinks he’s an artist.” He made Adrien spin. The movement was so abrupt that Adrien almost lost his balance. His ankle buckled. A searing pain shot up his leg. But the commander caught him just in time, squeezing even harder, nearly suffocating him. “Don’t fall,” he hissed. “If you fall, my dogs will think you’re meat.”
Out of the corner of his eye, Adrien saw the commandant’s two German Shepherds lying near the fireplace, heads raised, ears pricked. The waltz lasted ten minutes, ten minutes of absolute physical and mental torture. Adrien’s head spun, not from the dancing, but from the hunger and the terror. Around them, the other officers laughed loudly.
Some began to become violent. The sound of tearing fabric could be heard. An officer tried to lift the young Berlin actor’s robe to see what was underneath. Marek was still playing, his eyes closed, tears streaming down his violin. He was playing to drown out the screams, playing to avoid seeing.
Finally, the commander stopped the dance. He abruptly released Adrien. The young dancer staggered but, miraculously, managed to stay on his feet. The commander applauded slowly. “Well done! You have talent for a subhuman.” He turned to the buffet. He took a glass of champagne and a plate of whipped cream.
“You did a good job. You deserve a reward.” He handed Adrien the plate. “Eat!” Adrien stared at the cream. His stomach clenched. He knew that eating so much fat at once after months of starvation could kill him. His body would violently reject this food. He hesitated. The commander’s face hardened.
“I said eat, it’s an order. You will not refuse the hospitality of the empire.” The next trap was the humiliation of the meal. Adrien took the plate, his hands trembling. He scooped up a handful of cream with his fingers, since he hadn’t been given a spoon. He brought it to his made-up mouth. The sweet, rich, fatty taste exploded on his tongue.
It was both delicious and revolting. The officers had gathered around him. They watched as the beast ate. “Look how he swallows,” he laughed. “Faster, faster!” Adrien ate, tears mingling with the cream and lipstick on his face. He swallowed his shame with every bite, but the commandant wasn’t finished. The spectacle of the dance was no longer enough for him.
He wanted something more final. “The music has stopped!” he suddenly shouted. Marek froze, his bow in mid-air. A heavy, menacing silence fell. The commander climbed onto a chair. “Gentlemen, the dance is over. Let’s move on to the parlor game. We have seven pretty dolls, and I have seven bullets in my magazine.”
He drew his Luger from its holster. The atmosphere changed instantly. The party was over. The execution began. But this would not be an ordinary execution. It would be a game of chance. A sadistic Russian roulette, where the puppets would have to run for their lives in the middle of the banquet. In the next part, we will witness the chase in the ballroom. The commandant proposes a game.
The prisoners were forced to run from one end of the room to the other while the officers tried to trip them up, and the commander fired indiscriminately. Total chaos and panic reigned, and death struck blindly beneath the crystal chandeliers. The silence that followed the appearance of the weapon was more terrifying than all the preceding screams.
The black weapon gleamed in the commander’s hand beneath the crystal chandeliers. He cocked it with a sharp, metallic clang that echoed through the banquet hall like thunder. “Click, click.” “The rules are simple, miss,” he announced with a predatory smile. “The exit is over there, twenty meters away.”
“You have to run. If you reach the door, you live another night. If you fall… Boom!” He turned to his officers, who had risen to their feet, spurred on by this new conversation. “Gentlemen, don’t make it too easy for them. Create a bit of excitement, a few obstacles, but don’t touch them with your hands. Use your legs. Use the chairs.”
Adrien glanced at the massive door at the far end of the room. Twenty meters. Normally, for a star dancer, that would be a matter of three grand jetés, a matter of two seconds, but here the floor was slippery with spilled champagne and greasy fingers. He was wearing broken heels and a robe that restricted his legs.
And between him and the door were fifty drunken men, ready to do anything to see him lying flat on his face. “On your marks!” shouted the commander, raising his weapon to the ceiling. With a violent movement, Adrien ripped open the hem of his robe. The silk tore. He had to free his legs. Marek, the violinist, clutched his instrument to his chest, his eyes wide with terror.
Thomas, the tall boy in the tuxedo, trembled all over. “Go!” The opening shot wasn’t fired into the air. The commander fired into the parquet floor, right in front of the group’s feet. Wood splinters flew. Panic erupted instantly. The seven prisoners threw themselves into a chaotic sprint, stumbling, sliding, shoving each other. Adrien leaped forward.
His dancer’s instinct took over. He didn’t run. He flew. He dodged puddles of wine, anticipated every move. A burly officer threw a wooden chair into his path. Adrien reached it quickly. Instead of slowing down, he pushed off with his left leg and leaped over the obstacle with desperate grace.
His red robe billowed in the air like a bloodstain, but not everyone possessed Adrien’s agility. Thomas, clumsy and awkward in his oversized shoes, was the first to fall. A young SS lieutenant viciously tripped him. Thomas tumbled flat on his face, his top hat rolling away. He tried to get up, but slipped on the waxed parquet floor.
The commander, who had been walking calmly behind them like a hunter tracking wounded game, took aim. He didn’t aim for the head; he aimed for the back. Boom! The sound was deafening in the enclosed space. Thomas collapsed, his spine shattered. He didn’t die instantly. He screamed, an animalistic scream that mingled with the officers’ laughter.
The commander stepped forward and fired a second shot into his neck to finish him off. As if putting a lame horse out of its misery. “One less,” he calculated coldly. Adrien didn’t turn around. He heard the shot. He heard the body fall. But he kept running. He was still ten meters from the door. Ahead of him, the young Berlin actor was running, sobbing.
His black makeup ran all over his face. An officer threw a wine bottle at his legs. The glass shattered. The actor fell onto the sharp shards, cutting his knees and hands. He crawled, holding a bloody hand out toward the exit. “Please!” he pleaded. The commandant stood over him, looking at his face smeared with tears and blood.
“You botched your exit,” he said. Boom! Third bullet, two dead. The hall had become a luxury slaughterhouse. The smell of gunpowder smoke stung the throat and overpowered the smell of roast meat. The floor was stained red—with wine and blood. Marek, the violinist, was the slowest. He refused to let go of his violin.
He gripped it tightly with both hands, making it difficult to keep his balance. An officer grabbed his arm and spun him around. “Play us something while you die!” Marek was thrown against a table. He hit the edge hard. He didn’t fall, but his violin slipped from his grasp. The instrument, his companion, his soul, fell to the floor.
An officer deliberately crushed it with his boot. The wood creaked with a plaintive sound like a breaking bone. Marek let out a heart-rending cry. He threw himself to his knees to gather the fragments of his instrument. He forgot the door. He forgot the game. He wept over the corpse of his music.
Adrien, who had almost reached the door, paused for a split second. He saw Marek on his knees, an easy target. “Marek, get up!” Adrien shouted. That was a mistake. That shout drew the commander’s attention to Adrien. The SS officer pointed his weapon at the dancer. “Look, the ballerina wants to play the hero.”
Adrien saw the black hole of the barrel pointed directly at him. He was two meters from the exit. He made a sudden movement, a step to the side, instinctively. The shot. Boom! The bullet whistled past his ear, inches away, and lodged in the wooden door. Splinters flew into Adrien’s hair. He didn’t think anymore.
He lunged at the handle, opened it, and collapsed on the cold tiles of the corridor on the other side. He was out, he was alive. Behind him in the ballroom, a final shot rang out. It was for Marek, who was still weeping over his broken violin. The commander had fired five bullets; he had two left, but he seemed to have grown weary.
Adrien, lying on the icy corridor tiles, was silent. His red robe was torn and stained. He heard the laughter inside subside. The door opened again. The commander appeared, a smoking Luger in his hand. He surveyed Adrien’s body without looking at him. “Clean this place up,” he ordered the waiting guards, “and send the survivors back to the block.”
“You’ve earned the right to work tomorrow.” Adrien rose with difficulty. He was now just a shell of his former self among the seven men who had entered. Three lay dead on the polished parquet floor; the other three were injured and crawled toward the exit. They had survived the Christmas ornaments. But at what cost? Nothing, he looked at his hands.
They were covered in Thomas’s blood, which had splashed his dress when he fell. He hadn’t eaten his piece of cake. He had danced with death, and death had walked over him. The next morning at five, the excavator’s siren wailed as if the previous night had never happened. Adrien got up from his straw mattress.
He had slept for two hours, a sleep filled with nightmares in which violins bled and the parquet floor turned to quicksand. He looked around. Marek’s seat was empty. Thomas’s seat was empty. Of the seven dancers from the previous evening, only four had returned to the work block. Adrien still had traces of lipstick in the corners of his mouth that couldn’t be removed without water.
He rubbed his skin until it bled, trying to remove the mark of shame this time. They went to work. He didn’t go to the opera house, but to the crematorium to unload the carts. In this way he survived another four months, four months filled with winter, typhus, and despair. On April 29, 1945, Dachau concentration camp was liberated by the 42nd US Infantry Division.
When the soldiers broke through the perimeter, they found 30,000 living skeletons. Adrien was one of them. He weighed 38 kg. He lay in the mud, unable to stand. An American soldier lifted him up. For a moment, Adrien thought he would beat him like the SS. He shielded his face. The soldier wept.
“It’s over,” he said in English. Adrien was repatriated to France in June 1945. The return to Paris was strange. The city was celebrating. Tricolor flags were waving everywhere. People were celebrating the heroes, the resistance fighters. But no one wanted to hear the story of a man with a pink triangle who had bulldozed for an SS commander.
It was a sordid story, a double-edged tale. Then Adrien nearly killed himself. It took him a year to learn to walk again without pain. His ankles, twisted by that horrific night and weakened by malnutrition, remained unstable. But his spirit as a dancer was still there. With the iron discipline that had allowed him to survive, he attempted the impossible in 1946.
He returned to the Opéra Garnier. The doorman hardly recognized him. “Mr. Adrien, we thought you were dead.” “Perhaps I am a little bit,” he replied. He was given permission to use a rehearsal room. He wanted to know, he wanted to see if his body could still express beauty. After serving ugliness, he changed into a dance outfit. He slipped into his slippers.
The smell of rosin, old wood, and dried sweat filled his nostrils. It was the smell of his former life. He approached the barre and performed a plié. His knees cracked. He asked the accompanying pianist to play something. “A waltz?” the pianist suggested innocently. “By Strauss…” At that word—Strauss—Adrien’s blood froze.
The pianist began to play “The Blue Danube.” Instantly, the bright rehearsal room in Paris vanished. Adrien no longer saw the golden mirrors. He saw the chandeliers in the officers’ mess. He smelled the aroma of roast meat and gunpowder. He felt the commander’s damp hand on his lower back. He heard the sharp thud of Thomas’s skull hitting the floor.
Smack! He saw Marek weeping over his broken violin. Adrien began to tremble. Cold sweat poured down his back. His legs, which had carried stones and survived the death march, buckled. He collapsed at the foot of the piano and cried out, “Stop, stop the music, they’re going to shoot!” The terrified pianist stopped playing. Adrien lay on the ground for an hour, curled up in the fetal position, unable to separate the present from the past.
Then he grasped a terrible truth. The Nazis hadn’t just stolen his youth, they had stolen his music. They had irreparably defiled art. For him, dance would never again be freedom. It would always remain a dance of death. After that December 24th, Adrien never set foot on a stage again. He never became the star dancer he should have been.
That evening he went home, took his dancing shoes, and threw them into the coal stove of his small Paris apartment. He watched them burn, the satin writhing in the flames like living flesh. He led a solitary life, working as an archivist in a dusty library, far from the light, far from music. He never married.
He couldn’t bear to be touched. The touch of a hand on his skin awakened the spirit of the commander. Adrien died anonymously in 1988. His papers contained only a single photograph of him, young and in a stage costume, leaping into the air, defying gravity. On the back of the photograph, he had written in a trembling hand: “They killed the symbol, but they could not kill my soul.”
Epilogue: Adrien’s story is the story of cultural rape. The Nazis used the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Strauss to accompany their crimes, creating monstrous cognitive dissonance in their victims. Hundreds of artists—musicians, singers, dancers—were forced into artistic prostitution in the camps.
Many, like Adrien, were never able to touch an instrument or set foot on a stage again after the war. Their talent had become their trauma. When you hear a Viennese waltz today, think of Adrien, think of Marek and his broken violin. Think of those men in red silk robes, running for their lives on a parquet floor slippery with champagne and blood.
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