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TIL The Nazis had a “Black Book” of notables they wanted rounded up in England after they invaded and conqured that country. Some people included: Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell and Violet Bonham Carter, grandmother of actress Helena Bonham Carter.

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