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At that point his son-in-law, present because they thought we might need an interpreter, intervened and said that he was being too hard on himself, that no one could have expected him to actively resist. But he refused to be solaced and said that, in reaching his sixties, he had come to the terrible self-judgment, “You have badly used your profession and your life”—and added, “The worst feeling is when you can’t do anything, and the second worst that maybe you could have done something.”