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    "ocrText": "STATEMENT DICTATED BY GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR.\nregarding document taken in Nuremberg\nWhen the Third Army entered the city of Nuremberg there was\nquite a fight going on and the city was burning. Some troops\nof the 90th Infantry Division fighting through the town came to\na stairway which they went down with grenades, in case there\nwere any Germans. There were no Germans. They found a vault,\nnot open, and persuaded a German to open it for them. In it\nthey found this thing. That was all that was in the vault.\nThese soldiers of the 90th Division were very fond of me and\nI was very fond of them. They thought they would like to do\nsomething for me, so they sent for me, and we had a great public\npresentation. The former commanding general of the 90th Division,\nnow commander of the Third Corps, General Van Fleet, - he actually\nmade the presentation to me. So it is my property. They have\ngiven me a lot of other things but this is the important one.\nThis [document] was taken the day we captured Nuremberg, about\nbein\nenner\nthe 14th of March. We captured so many towns I have forgotten\njust which day. The presentation must have been about the 27th\nvault\nof May.\nRegarding Mein Kampf\nThat book was alleged by a talkative German to be one of a\nlimited edition of the unexpurgated text. There were alleged to\nhave been one hundred copies. It was published by a man named\nEmman. He is the No. 3 bad man in Germany. I have him in jail\nnow. We'll stretch him pretty quick!\nHuntington Library\nSan Marino, Calif.\nJune 11, 1945\nPH & EP"
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