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Bert Trautmann: Margaret, I'm not some kind of monster.
Margaret: There's some folk round here might say different.
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Bert Trautmann: Hating me is an easy way.
Margaret: An easy way? What are you talking about? You think you just come in and play some football and everything is forgiven and forgotten. Forgiven that you lot killed my friends? Forgotten that you robbed us of our youth? You know, instead of going out dancing, we had to spend our evenings in a bomb shelter. Hoping our houses are still standing and our family and friends still alive when we get home. It's easy for me dad to just see you as a footballer because it's convenient for him. But not for me. I know what you really are.
Bert Trautmann: I'd rather have danced with you than stood on the battlefield. But I didn't have a choice.
Henri A. Tomic
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