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in order to prepare to go over the top begin baaing like sheep,
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going baa, baa,
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the way that sheep baah on the way to the slaughter,
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l'abattoir, the slaughterhouse,
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because that's where they were going.
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Now, there was socialist and pacifist literature that had,
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happily enough, in my view, had gotten into the trenches.
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But this is not the motivation.
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And Pétain, who ends up being one of the sort of evil forces in France--
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but this was early Pétain,
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when Pétain, he realizes that this is not the case, that in fact
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the repression is much less severe than many of the generals wanted--