the fallen

the fallen
   those killed in war
   Those who fall3 in battle:
    Since Monday the Dresdener Zeitung is only printing mass graves, so to speak... and not much more remains than the earlier lists of the fallen. (Klemperer, 1999, in translation, writing of the last weeks of the Second World War)

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