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The secret police were well aware that this woman had come to Turkey to infect it with anarchy, and that her methods were no different from those before her who had come to infect it with syphillis, but unfortunately her blackmail album included quite a few policemen posing in their birthday suits and waving their “nightsticks,” so the whole thing was hushed up before the papers could get their hands on the incriminating pictures.
Obwohl die Polizei sehr wohl wußte, daß die Anarchie genauso wie die Syphilis von dieser Frau ins Land eingeschleppt wurde, war das Ereignis dennoch vor der Presse vertuscht worden, weil die Fotosammlung der Frau auch die Bilder vieler unserer Polizisten enthalten hatte, splitterfasernackt und den Schlagstock in der Hand.
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