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Brazilian cargo ship Baependi

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677:, built in 1940. She had a displacement of 1,120 tons on the surface and 1,232 tons submerged. With a length of 76.76 meters (251 ft 10 in), submarines of this type were powered by a combination of diesel and electric engines. Underwater, only the electric motor could be used. It was only later in the war that a device was adapted - a tube that captures air from the surface - the snorkel, to make the submarine capable of starting the diesel engine even while submerged. On the surface, powered by diesel, a Type IXC could sail 13,450 915:
the margins and far from the theater of war, was practiced with ignorance of the most elementary principles of law and humanity. Our country, in keeping with its tradition, is not afraid of such brutality and the government is examining what measures to take in the face of what has happened. The people must remain calm and confident, in the certainty that the crimes committed against the lives and property of Brazilians will not go unpunished." Press and Propaganda Department. August 18, 1942.
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The news outraged the Brazilian population who, desiring retaliation, turned against immigrants or descendants of Germans, Italians and Japanese. In many Brazilian cities, there were episodes of depredations of commercial establishments belonging to people from those countries, as well as attempts at
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For the first time, Brazilian vessels, serving the traffic of our coasts in the transport of passengers and cargo from one state to another, suffered attacks by Axis submarines (...) The unspeakable attack against defenseless units of the merchant navy of a peaceful country, whose life takes place on
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Within minutes the ship was gone. The sea was soon filled with debris and pieces of wood fell everywhere like splinters. Light buoys, which lit up on contact with the water, gave the sea a reddish hue. Captain Moutinho, who had miraculously managed to return to the surface, brought up by the pressure
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After the first attacks, in February, the Brazilian government, together with US naval authorities, began to take measures to try to prevent the ships from being sunk easily. Thus, it was decided that the ships should be painted gray and sail in the dark and without flags. In the middle of that year,
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The attack on this ship - as well as those that followed in the days that followed -, due to the impact it had on Brazil's contemporary history, is a recurring theme in naval literature, as well as the subject of various academic and military studies, being the biggest Brazilian naval disaster caused
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The sequence of torpedoeings ignited a revolt that was already stirring up public opinion. The political situation became tense, with anti-fascist demonstrations in the country. There were attacks on businesses owned by Germans or Italians, as well as harassment of people from or descended from those
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Since the attack took place only a few kilometers from the coast, and due to the fact that many of the victims were women and children, the repercussions were many. In the days that followed, five more ships were sunk by the same submarine, bringing the death toll to six hundred and filling Brazilian
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During the night, they could still make out the lights of a ship in the distance, but they could not reach it because of the distance. About an hour later, they heard a dry rumble followed by an immense flash. They did not understand what was happening. Only later did they discover what it was: the
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On the cloudy, starless night, the situation of the survivors, despite being accommodated in the lifeboat, was precarious, due to the intense cold, added to the thirst, seasickness and injuries, all made worse by the rough sea. A stronger wave ended up hitting the lifeboat with force. The danger of
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Groping, with great effort, I manage to hold on to the ladder and, holding on to the ledges, I slowly make my way up. In the darkness, I can just make out the outline of a door at the end of the staircase I'm trying to climb. I have to reach it at all costs, otherwise I'll sink inside the ship. One
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Late at night, all the lights off, we were sailing about 20 miles from the coast, when suddenly a tremendous bang violently shook the old boat. The windows shattered, the woodwork creaked, cracked and, thrown by invisible forces, shards of glass and wood flew everywhere. The first victims fall, and
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In theory, the treatment given to ships from non-belligerent countries, until then, was interception - usually by torpedo - inspection, interrogation of the crew and, finally, the order to abandon, so that the vessel could be sunk with the crew already safe in the lifeboats. Therefore, "lifting the
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The passengers had just finished dinner and were celebrating the birthday of the First Commissioner, Sebastião Ferreira Tarouquella. An orchestra was playing in the lounge and the captain and some of the passengers were joining in. Outside, under the awning of the aft deck, soldiers - most of them
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In addition to the captain, the chief mate, the ship's doctor, a pilot, five train drivers, a radio telegrapher and two stewards died, along with 43 others, making a total of 55 crew members lost, as well as 215 of the 233 passengers on board. Major Landerico also died, along with three captains,
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remaining on the east coast of South America for around fifteen years and docking dozens of times in the port of Santos, bringing emigrants or carrying sacks of coffee. The ship's routine was always the same: She came from Europe with German, Russian, Polish, or Baltic emigrants, and consumer and
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I run to my cabin nearby, push open the door, which fortunately hasn't jammed, quickly grab my life preserver and get out. There are many people in the hallway; some, mainly women and children, are standing still, as if waiting for someone else to save them; others are walking feverishly in the
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The radio telegrapher did not have time to transmit a distress message. Nor was there time to launch the dinghies and lifeboats overboard; only one broke free spontaneously. Many of the passengers were in their cabins and had no time to get out due to the speed of the sinking. The captain, João
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The lights go out; we bump into each other, disoriented, in deep darkness. The ship is heaving considerably, and it is now impossible to walk upright. The second torpedo was the coup de grace. The Baependi is in agony... I realize that she's going to sink quickly. I struggle to get out of the
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I see all this at a glance and, still wearing my lifebelt, I climb the ladder to the top deck in search of my lifeboat; clinging to the railing, bumping into people who are coming down, stunned, I'm almost at the top when a second torpedo explodes, shattering the whole ship. The railing I was
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At the beginning of 1942, she also took part in a massacre on the east coast of the United States, which the Germans called their "second happy time" (the "first happy time" had been in 1940, around the British Isles), when the Germans sank dozens of ships off New York or even further, in the
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The machines stop, the steam abruptly changes course, and we are thrown forward by inertia. The first instant leaves everyone motionless with astonishment, their breaths suspended, their faces pale and anguished... There are no screams, no panic. Everyone is struggling to understand what has
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From Rio de Janeiro, her port of departure, to Bahia, the sea was calm. However, from that point onwards, it was agitated, with strong waves. The ship carried 306 people on board, including the crew of 73 men and an army unit, whose members - officers and soldiers - were accompanied by their
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Some of the castaways managed to reach the only lifeboat that broke free; 28 survivors reached land the next morning. Eight took another day to reach the beach, clinging to debris. In total, 18 crew members and 18 passengers (only one woman) were saved. All the children on board died.
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At dawn on the 16th, they reached a deserted beach on the south coast of Sergipe, where they found some water in an abandoned hut by the beach. After a long walk, they reached a village called Canoas, where the locals were reluctant, due to the conditions they were in.
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Brazil was still a neutral country, but in light of recent events, this neutrality was precarious. This situation was already visible not only to the Brazilian authorities but also to the German command, which legitimized - from a Nazi point of view - the actions of the
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I'm in the vestibule, from where the stairs lead to the upper deck and the cabins below. Taken by surprise, I have an immediate intuition: we've been torpedoed! Immediately afterwards, I hear the ship's deaf whistle calling for help... The Baependi begins to heel over.
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from Rio de Janeiro - were singing and drumming happily without suspecting a thing, around the cannon and on top of the boxes of goods and ammunition. They were from the 7th Back Artillery Group, commanded by Major Landerico de Albuquerque Lima, on their way to
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the Brazilian ships began to be equipped with a timid defense system, with only one 4.7-inch (120 mm) artillery piece, which proved ineffective in the face of surprise attacks at night, such as those that took place in the Caribbean Sea in June and July.
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had been in Brazilian territorial waters, ready to attack, and she did not lack the credentials to do so. Since leaving the Hamburg shipyards on September 11, 1940, she had already sunk ten Allied ships in the North Atlantic, including a 10,731-ton American
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was officially delivered to the operator on August 5, 1899, and soon afterward, on the 23rd of that month, she began her maiden voyage between Hamburg and Santos, via intermediate stops, sometimes extending as far as the countries of the
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rejoiced at the retaliation (or attempt to) carried out by the FAB. On the other side, the Germans began to launch a merciless surprise attack. A game of belligerent action and reaction was taking place. The German Navy Command asked
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Some are struggling down the stairs to the lower cabins in search of lifeboats, or to rejoin their families; unfortunately, they are never to return... They will be left in the company of those who haven't even managed to get out.
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Students, trade unionists, workers and other sectors of society marched through the streets of the country's main cities demanding the country's entry into the war. In Rio de Janeiro, around the Guanabara Palace and the
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On August 22, after a ministerial meeting, Brazil ceased to be neutral, declaring a "state of belligerence" against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, formalized by Decree-Law No. 10,508, issued on August 31, 1942.
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clinging to is torn to shreds, and I roll down the stairs, backwards, tumbling to the door of the mess hall, from which I had come out. No more than thirty seconds elapsed between the first and second torpedoes.
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The ship is now almost on its side: what used to be a wall has become a floor. I go through that door with the movements of someone who, through the opening in the ceiling, passes into the ceiling of a
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and Recife would be penetrated by stealth at night. Anchored installations and vessels would be torpedoed and access to the ports mined, which would increase the country's serious supply problems.
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Exactly twice as many people died in the attack as in the previous fourteen (between January and July of that year). Some consider the German attack on the Brazilian coast to be the "Brazilian
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of the ship's immersion, was still able to catch a glimpse of the submarine in the darkness, which was shining a beam of light on the wreckage to see the devastating effects of its mission.
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restrictions" meant sinking the ship, wherever it was, so that there were no survivors. From then on, Brazilian ships would be considered belligerent and torpedoed without warning.
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Dissatisfied with the fact that he had not succeeded in bending Brazil as he had intended, Hitler, on July 4, approved a plan by the naval High Command in which the ports of
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capsizing became imminent and the men had to undress and put their soaked clothes in the chipped crevice of the boat, as well as bucket out the water that kept pouring in.
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families, some with many children, for a total of 233 passengers, as well as a general cargo - including military equipment - valued at more than eleven million cruzeiros.
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It took two minutes for the ship to submerge. This lapse of time was vividly reported by artillery officer Lauro Moutinho dos Reis, one of the few survivors:
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to burst open, from where great flames began to emanate, rising almost to the top of the mast. As a result, the ship caught fire and quickly drifted to
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It was not until August 18, that the Press and Advertising Department's relay station broadcast to the country, and the newspapers published, the
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She was later confiscated by the Brazilian government - on June 1, 1917 - along with other ships, in view of the declaration of war against the
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was sailing in the Atlantic when her captain received news of the outbreak of the world conflict and sought refuge in the Brazilian port of
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production goods that did not exist in Brazil; on the way back, she carried coffee and cotton destined for the European market.
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direction where they think they can find rescue. The ship is getting worse and worse; all we can do now is cling to the walls.
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Brazil did not declare war on Japan, as it believed that Japan had not been responsible for any sinking of Brazilian ships.
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The ship continued to sail on the Gold and Silver Route until the outbreak of hostilities that marked the beginning of the
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was to infiltrate Brazilian territorial waters and there, carry out "free maneuvers", in other words, sink any and all
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of 4,801 tons, measured 114 meters (374 ft 0 in) long by 14.1 meters (46 ft 3 in) wide and had a
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had already been in service for over forty years. She had been built in 1899 at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in
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She was a mixed ship, i.e. a cargo ship and a passenger ship, which gave her the name, common at the time, of a
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Since January 1942, it was certain that Brazil would align itself with the United States in the war against
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with the special mission of "locating and attacking a hostile submarine", which had attacked the freighter
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The president, feeling that he could not postpone the decision without undermining the foundations of the
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headlines with graphic photographs of the dead, who crowded the beaches of southern Sergipe and northern
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lynching, even against those who were not sympathetic to the Nazi cause, which was the vast majority.
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The ship was owned by the Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft (currently called
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there are several people whose faces are bleeding from wounds caused by shards of glass.
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Soares da Silva, died on the bridge blowing the ship's whistle, according to witnesses.
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that would outrage the country (by that date, five other ships had already been sunk):
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to lift the restrictions on attacking Brazilian ships, which was immediately granted.
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The ship had left Salvador, Bahia, at seven o'clock in the morning, heading north to
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interior. A suffocating, nauseating smell from the explosion invades everything.
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of 9.2 metres (30 ft 2 in). Made of a steel hull, she was propelled by
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by an act of war and the fourth deadliest in history involving a national ship.
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At 19:12 (00:12 on the 16th, Central European Time), the first torpedo hit the
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happened, to find a solution, sensing the gravity of the terrible moment...
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asked for all restrictions on attacks on Brazilian ships to be lifted.
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Her career in the service of Hamburg Süd was long and uniform, with the
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Although the cruiser disaster cost more lives, the torpedoing of the
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five lieutenants, eight sergeants and 125 corporals and soldiers.
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announced that he had sunk an armed Brazilian merchant ship - the
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in an advertisement for Cia. de Navegação LLoyd Brasileiro, 1930.
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Conheça os bastidores da história do massacre de agosto de 1942
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At the beginning of August, new orders were issued: only the
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to operate in the midst of national coastal shipping.
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Her Brazilian name was given in honor of the town of
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Archived from 298:, in 1945, in which around 340 men died. 1179:Rossini, José Carlos (14 January 2003). 1078: 1076: 1074: 1072: 1070: 1068: 1066: 1064: 1062: 1060: 1323:História, Conheça Nossa (9 July 2007). 984: 940: 860:being torpedoed by the same submarine. 543:When, on May 24, the commander of the 25: 19:For the Brazilian Navy destroyer, see 1257: 1255: 1253: 1251: 1046:(in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-03-10 49: 16:Brazilian cargo ship sunk during WWII 7: 1200: 1198: 1149: 1147: 1120: 1118: 1116: 1114: 1112: 1034: 1032: 1030: 998: 996: 994: 992: 990: 988: 512:in the state of Minas Gerais, whose 196:114.5 m (375 ft 8 in) 1044:EBlog - Blog do Exército Brasileiro 728:On the afternoon of August 15, the 645:Since the beginning of August, the 349:declare war on the Axis countries. 107:Cia. de Navegação Lloyd Brasileiro 98:Cia. de Navegação Lloyd Brasileiro 14: 902:Repercussion and popular reaction 867:After being fed, they headed for 520:, meaning "the open clearing" in 204:9.2 m (30 ft 2 in) 778:, the side on which it was hit. 51: 29: 1236:Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre 960:is only surpassed by the ships 281:off the coast of the state of 1: 1292:www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br 1267:www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br 1159:www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br 736:, when it was spotted by the 560:Also in May, a heavily armed 249:120 mm (4.7 in) gun 1383:World War II ships of Brazil 420:) and a maximum speed of 12 240:(at the time of the sinking) 234:60 crew plus 450 passengers 1238:(in Portuguese), 2023-08-08 1232:"Dicionário de Tupi Antigo" 833:Seleções do Reader's Digest 818:more effort and I make it. 410:quadruple expansion engines 309:at the end of August 1942. 226:(22 km/h; 14 mph) 1414: 1093:O Brasil na mira de Hitler 638: 564:(FAB) plane took off from 376:, the same city where the 337:, led by Foreign Minister 18: 1388:Passenger ships of Brazil 1357:(in Brazilian Portuguese) 1331:(in Brazilian Portuguese) 1294:(in Brazilian Portuguese) 1269:(in Brazilian Portuguese) 1213:(in Brazilian Portuguese) 1205:Reimar (6 January 2008). 1161:(in Brazilian Portuguese) 1132:(in Brazilian Portuguese) 479:. On August 4, 1914, the 169: 44: 28: 1091:Sander, Roberto (2007). 1003:Bonalume Neto, Ricardo. 724:seen from another angle. 272:cargo and passenger ship 170:General characteristics 165:Sunk on August 15, 1942 1288:"Submarinos tipo IX C" 917: 890: 838: 725: 641:German submarine U-507 610:Joachim von Ribbentrop 402:gross register tonnage 276:German submarine  147:), on August 23, 1899. 912: 886: 719: 528:The immediate context 115:Blohm & Voss (in 1211:navios e navegadores 1015:on 17 September 2011 829:Seleções de Seleções 708:shortly afterwards. 562:Brazilian Air Force 400:. 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Index

USS Cannon

Baependi
Minas Gerais
Cia. de Navegação Lloyd Brasileiro
Hamburg
Santos
Rio de Janeiro
Cargo
Steam engine
knots
packet
cargo and passenger ship
German submarine U-507
Sergipe
Second World War
cruiser
Bahia
Axis
Bahia
Pearl Harbor
Rio de Janeiro
Oswaldo Aranha
Guanabara Palace
Getúlio Vargas
Estado Novo
Hamburg
U-507
Hamburg Süd
passenger liner

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