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The Nazi Waffen -SS.

The fanatical shock troops who led Adolf Hitler's evil charge for world

domination.

The Viet Cong.

The ragtag guerrilla force that took the U .S. military head -on and won the

Vietnam War.

Who is deadliest?

To find out, Our world -class fighters are testing history's most lethal

weapons.

Using 21st century science, we'll see what happens when the

two warriors go toe -to -toe.

No rules, no safety, no mercy.

It's a duel to the death to decide who is the deadliest warrior.

Welcome to the Fight Club.

In this bloody battle lab, our team of scientists and medical experts

are about to embark on their most chilling assignment yet.

The question, who will win in a death match between two of the most hated

enemies America has ever fought?

The notoriously evil Nazi Boppen SS.

Hitler's deadly assault forces that launched World War II.

And who killed more American G .I .s in 1944 than in any other single year of

combat.

Versus the vicious Viet Cong.

Murderous masters of jungle warfare.

Architects of hidden horror during the Vietnam War.

Lead biomedical scientist Jeff Damelin.

Who used advanced technology.

to evaluate the killing power of each weapon.

We're here to look at two of the most dangerous warriors U .S. troops have

in history.

Waffen -SS, Viet Cong.

We're not here to argue ideology.

We just want to do clean tests of the weapons and the warriors behind them.

AR physician Armand Dorian will weigh in on the gruesome injuries caused by the

instruments of war.

We've got the Nazis who were the aggressors, and then we've got the Viet

who were able to kind of ingrain themselves into their own land and

themselves. From the United States.

Computer weirds Max Geiger will track the test findings and input the data

a battle simulation program.

Because we're dealing with modern warriors who have automatic firearms and

explosives, there's too much of a chance for a lucky kill here. So we're going

to be bumping the simulation up to handle five -man squad.

Inside the simulator, the two combat forces will engage in a true -to -life

fight to the death.

The winner will be... the deadliest warrior.

Wielding weapons for the Waffen -SS, Silvio Wulbusch, an expert in German

War II combat organization.

There was no enemy, the Waffen -SS feared, no matter who it was.

Also testing for the German team, military historian Robert Wilhelm

The Waffen -SS were used as shock troops, the elite of the elite.

No finer soldier ever fought a worse cause.

Adolf Hitler, leader of Germany's Nazi party, first formed the SS as his

personal bodyguard.

But by the start of World War II, the SS had dramatically expanded, forming its

own special combat force, the Waffen -SS.

They were indoctrinated. They were gung -ho. They wanted to fight for Führer und

Vaterland.

They became the best equipped.

most fearsome force that the German arsenal had to offer.

Led by the Wappen SS, the Nazi war machine crushed nation after nation

Europe.

After the U .S. and Allied forces invaded France in 1944, the Wappen SS

their warrior legacy.

After the G -Day invasion of Normandy, the SS never quit.

They were able to achieve brilliant battlefield success against all odds.

During the brutal Battle of the Bulge, their relentless and savage assaults

more American lives than any other land battle of World War II.

But ferocious tactics are also trademarks of the Nazis' newest

Handling the weapons of the Viet Cong is Vietnamese -born Tuan Nguyen.

A former U .S. Army grenade and firearm specialist, Tuan knows firsthand The

savagery of the Viet Cong.

Viet Cong knew how to attack you from all sides without any warning.

Born on an airbase at the height of the Vietnam War, Danny Boyer is a firearms

expert and private security contractor working in Southeast Asia.

An army of the Viet Cong was like an army of ants. They could move mountains.

After the Vietnamese threw off their French rulers in 1954,

The colony was divided along the 17th parallel, separating the Communist North

and U .S.-supported South.

Communists in the South wanted unity and launched a guerrilla war.

Their enemies called them the Viet Cong.

The French had vastly underestimated the guerrillas, and the United States was

about to make the same grave mistake.

Up against the U .S. military, The Viet Cong proved an unyielding opponent.

And ultimately, the American public demanded an end to the war.

The Viet Cong were willing to fight for the cause until the last foreigner

leaves the country.

So how will Vietnam's most feared guerrilla fighters fare against the

most ruthless killers?

I've got to give this one to the Waffen -SS.

They had a huge superiority complex, and when you believe your opponent's a dog,

it's very easy to pull the trigger and get the job done.

I'm giving my initial edge to the Viet Cong. I think their unconventional

tactics are unlike what the Waffen -SS are used to fighting, and also, were the

Americans able to defeat this opponent?

The answer is yes in the case of the Waffen -SS.

No, in the case of the Viet Cong.

Some of the Viet Cong's most lethal weapons were also their simplest.

17 % of all U .S. casualties were caused by the V .C.'s sinister booby traps.

The Viet Cong booby traps were so easy to make, not only that, but it instilled

psychological fear in their enemies, and it was devastating.

It was a man -killer.

Hungy dates.

The Vietcong's toxic terror stick.

This is what makes the Vietcong famous.

It's just bamboo sharp enough tip.

Very sharp. Watch your finger.

These tips were usually dipped in human poop has bacteria. And if that gets in

the wrong place, it festers and it can grow. And when it grows, you become

septic and then you can die.

To test the killing power of this primitive weapon.

Toxic Pungy takes the line at the bottom of a wooden box, topped with a

trapdoor. A pig carcass will represent an unsuspecting enemy.

We've got our 180 -pound pig rigged to this quick release.

When I pull it, we'll see if he's going to fall through that trapdoor.

I speed up and arm.

Three, two, one, drop it!

Okay, so there's a lot to point out here. The pig has hit all the way across

body in multiple stab wounds. So this might actually kill if it hits an

appropriate spot. They're not always killing with the steak itself, but once

they fall and this penetrates, that's where the E. coli gets into the body

stream and causes death.

This is only one method that the punji steak was used as a trap. Our next

method, it's going to literally take your head off.

Punji steak terror also came from the sky.

The spike ball.

Talk about this, man. This is freaky deaky here.

This is made of mud and molded by hand and studded with punchy sticks.

And it weighs, I would say, about anywhere 50 to 100 pounds.

They would swing it on up to the top of the tree, tie a slipknot to it, tie it

onto a trip wire. Any soldier passing by hits the trip wire, leaves the spike

ball swinging down at a deadly arc.

To test the weapon, the spike ball is suspended and drawn back.

A ballistic gel torso with the same density as human flesh and bone is set

directly in the ball's trajectory.

Danny, you ready on the court?

Ready. On three!

You know, we don't see a lot of puncture wounds, but there's this one right

here, and this would hit right under the spleen. If this spike was over a little

bit more midline, it would hit some significant organs and would kill. But

if the spike didn't get you, you falling on your butt, smacking your head on the

ground would kill you.

You've got to be kidding me, right?

I mean, this is being like at war with the Flintstones.

Medieval, but then it worked. And here's the evidence.

If a Waffen -SS soldier was to use this, it would be court -martialing for

cowards who face the enemy.

Coming up, the Nazi Waffen -SS retaliate with bone -roasting brutality.

Nazi Waffen -SS, or be it Kong, who will be the deadliest warrior?

Inside our fight ground, two notoriously evil fighting forces are preparing for

a head -to -head deathmatch.

Nazi Germany's elite Waffen -SS versus Vietnam's communist Vietcorp.

The VCs are going to win over the Nazis because of their sheer fighting spirit

and their tactics.

There was no better soldier.

There was no more dedicated.

No better armed, no more determined than the Waffen -SS.

Both fighters will deploy extremely deadly arsenals.

The Waffen -SS unleash hell.

With the MP -28 submachine gun, the bouncing Betty landmine, Mauser pistol,

and the Flammenwerfer flamethrower, the Vietcong strike back.

With a MAT -49 submachine gun, POMZ -2 mine, Tokarev TT -33 pistol,

and Pungi stakes.

The aircon team experts already proved their killing potential of the Pungi

stake traps.

The Nazi buff and SS experts are ready to burn the VC back to the Stone Age.

The Flammenwerfer, flamethrower.

A searing stream of liquid hell.

Our deadliest warrior team will test this powerful weapon on the firing

This little baby is called a Flammenwerfer 51, or a flamethrower

it was pretty much the last developed model of flamethrowers Germany employed

the war.

So how much does something like this weigh on your back? About 48 pounds, and

can move around with it pretty good.

In World War II, A favorite fuel for the flamenwerfer was a diabolical mix of

gasoline and tar.

The flaming material would stick to whatever it hit.

Our team will test the flamethrower's ability to destroy the cover of a

simulated Vietcong village.

The thermal camera will determine the hellish temperatures this weapon can

unleash.

Thermo camera is rolling. When you're ready, fire!

Whoa!

Holy!

That's 800 degrees Fahrenheit!

Okay, we just went up to 1 ,200 degrees Fahrenheit!

Woo! Yeah, baby!

Holy crap.

So it's fully engulfed in less than an instant.

Yeah. Here it goes.

Here it goes. This is where our mannequin used to stand. Your

primary target.

You definitely took care of it.

Have a look at this path that you've just made. If there are any booby traps

this area, they're now neutralized, and you can move a whole platoon through

here if you want to. Oh, yeah. Gary, that's a picture of war.

Yeah. It really is.

Realistically, what it's proven to me is that fire does burn wood and it does

burn dry grass.

If there would be a Kong, they wouldn't have been here. And I don't think your

operator would have gotten that close to a hut like this.

Here we go, man.

Boom, baby.

Oh, man, you hit his feet first and his climb was right up to his face.

I mean, this is not a nice way to die. This is just sheer terror, sheer pain,

going down slow and hard.

As history has already proven to us, flamethrowers didn't help the Americans.

The flamethrower in Vietnam wasn't on the back of a Wachman's West Grenadier.

think you're going to have to plug that into an oil well to pluck the Viet Cong

out of the jungle.

Each team's special weapons are terrifying.

But which one do our experts believe is deadlier?

I'm giving the edge to the punji stick weapons. With the flamethrower, you're

using resources.

That's a man to use that weapon. With the punji stick weapons...

Completely powerful.

The flamethrower's devastation is point -and -shoot. It's going to burn you to

death, and it's reusable. You don't have to fall into it. I've got to give the

edge to the flamethrower. Edge flamethrower. Edge flamethrower. Don't

anything. Edge flamethrower.

For special weapons, the Waffen -SS take a flame -broiled edge with a

flammenwerfer. Nazi experts believe the SS has an undeniable vantage.

If you're convinced that you're it, you're it.

There's nothing that can stop me.

I believe that Germany was destined to rule the world.

As the vanguard of this new world, the Nazi Waffen -SS had strict physical

requirements. You couldn't even have a filling in one of your teeth. I mean, it

was supposed to be the Ubermensch, the super ray.

One had to be of pure Aryan ancestry, which had to be proved back to 1750.

While the regular German army did military drills, Waffen -SS recruits

to box, teaching them the importance of striking the first blow.

There was close to a 30 to 40 percent burnout rate. Just because of the sheer

physical stamina needed and expected from Waffen -SS troops.

Viet Cong recruiting differed radically from the meticulous standards of the

Nazis. The Viet Cong were a socialist fighting army.

There was no room for elitism.

South Vietnam was a hostile territory everywhere. That's why the Viet Cong had

to train on the go. That meant they had more experience with the terrain. They

were better equipped to adapt and survive in that kind of environment.

The Viet Cong even turned ammunition shortages to their advantage.

The Viet Cong soldier only trained with three rounds per day before they learned

how to make every round count.

You don't have to be good to join the Viet Cong.

You join the Viet Cong, they make you good.

They can the Viet Cong, I'll fight the Nazi attack.

Coming up, both teams unload a rapid -fire assault.

Inside the Fight Club.

Experts on two of America's most unrelenting combat enemies are preparing

death match.

Nazi Germany's Waffen -SS.

And Vietnam's Viet Cong.

Each warrior brings an X -Factor to the battle.

The Viet Cong, they were able to use two things, their homeland and their

passion to defend themselves.

They thought outside the box. They were able to create types of weapons that you

couldn't even imagine.

On the other hand, the Waffen -SS were scientific warfare experts. They were

able to bring the technology and orchestrate terror in their weapons.

The Waffen -SS's primary weapon was a rapid -fire mechanical monitor.

The MP28 submachine gun.

Guaranteed to cut the enemy to ribbons.

The beauty here is the direct descendant of the famous MP18, which was the first

submachine gun.

It's one of the best finely crafted submachine guns ever. I can see how the

would be a very effective weapon in the streets of Europe. But what I want to

know is how does it stand up in the jungle?

To replicate the deep cover of a jungle, the Vulcan SS experts will have to

shoot through a camouflage net.

Three robotic moving targets will act as vehicle forces.

Simulated mortar fire will also obscure sight.

Silvio, remember, three claps, 30 seconds. Are you ready? Ready.

Three, two, one.

Man,

his...

face wouldn't stop bleeding i didn't know your head held that much blood and

this guy's got some ballet stance going on or maybe that's vc yoga this is the

entrance wound here in his neck this is the exit wound oh yeah

that's nasty nasty is right took one in the collarbone this one here definitely

dropping a lung that'd be a left lung this one here drop the right lung

I can only say Auf Wiedersehen. It was fantastic.

One more communist dead.

Dead, dead, dead.

Curtain.

Not too impressed. I was expecting a little bit more.

There's three targets and they all have a headshot. And ten rounds in the upper

torso. But I've got something in the Viet Cong arsenal that's going to take

a ton of Nazis.

Indulge me.

The Viet Cong are ready to buy a bat with their own automatic man killer.

The MAT -49 submachine gun.

Designed for surprise hit -and -run attack.

This is the MAT -49, originally designed and developed by the French, and the

Viet Cong actually captured this from the French army back in the 50s. It used

the 9mm round.

It's a lead core with a full jacket around it there.

9x19mm parabellum. This weapon fires about 600 rounds per minute.

Ooh, it's light. Very lightweight.

And that's why the Viet Cong loved it so much, because they had to be on the

move all the time in the jungle, in that kind of terrain.

To see how the Viet Cong's favorite submachine gun performs outside of the

jungle, our experts have set up a D -Day, Normandy invasion scenario.

Three robotic targets will storm the beach.

So, we've got obstacles.

tank busters, and in the ground, explosives that will be going off,

mortar rounds.

You'll get 30 seconds, three clips, take out your three targets.

Okay, Danny, are you ready?

Yeah!

Okay,

first kill shot. Take a look at this. Right into the neck, the exit wound,

out the center of the back of the neck.

That tells me this was a spinal cord hit. Any communication from the brain to

the body is now cut off. Instant kill shot.

Let's look at his friend. Oh, my God.

Okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

This guy is not in a happy place right now. Dude, you shot his pants off.

And as you can see, this one was the furthest away from me, and because of

molded forward pistol grip, it helped me control it at distance. Yet I was able

to keep rounds right on him.

Yeah, well, compared to the MB -28, this is a toy gun.

Both warriors' murder machines prove their potential on the battlefield.

But which one do our experts believe has the edge?

MP28 versus MAT49.

They almost fire the exact same round.

Muzzle velocity is pretty much the same.

Barrel length, rate of fire, okay, you get a little bit more with the MAT49.

What I'm going to call is dead even. I'm inclined to agree, dead even.

The long -range weapons.

The submachine guns are equally lethal.

Coming up.

The warrior teams unleash explosive killer surprises.

Nazi Waffen -SS, or be it Kong, will be the

deadliest warrior.

Inside our fight club, we're moving closer to a showdown between two of the

hated warriors of all time.

Nazi Germany's ruthless Waffen -SS against communist guerrilla fighter, the

Cong.

Viet Cong were tougher than the Nazis because the Viet Cong were so ingenious.

That's why they're going to kill these Nazi pigs.

Whatever the Viet Cong will throw at the Waffen -SS, it may slow them down at

one stop, and they will keep steamrolling until they have run over

Team Waffen -SS won't stop at just flattening the Viet Cong.

Their next weapon will blow the VC to bits.

The Bouncing Betty Landmine.

A jumping jolt of shredding steel.

Special thing about this mine.

You hear that?

It contains 360 of these ball bearings.

Now, there are two charges in this mine. One at the top, one at the bottom.

Once the bottom blows it up about waist high, then the main charge goes off,

which sends out ball bearings in all directions.

And these ball bearings were feared by the Allied soldiers beyond the obvious

reason. They also maimed and castrated.

The nickname of this is the Bouncing Betty, and she's a very, very naughty

Four VC stand -ins will take on the destructive power of the device.

These mannequins will give us damage, but we also want to test the range and

dispersal pattern of this weapon. We've got a number of targets set up, and so

we're going to see if that weapon can do what you claim.

Shock patches will measure the bomb's deadly blast.

Everyone behind the shield.

Max, you ready with the trigger?

Ready. Okay, on three, buddy.

Three, two, one, go!

Yeah, baby!

Boom!

That's beautiful.

First thing here, guys, don't even need to look at the frag. The primary

shockwave killed this guy. This is the 100G path.

It's tripped. This guy's dead.

Wow, look at that. One, two, three. I mean, it's just chewing up the person in

half. Femoral artery here.

You know, we know what's there.

I think all you little commie brothers, bye -bye.

Mm -hmm.

Oh!

Yeah. Oh, my God.

Didn't we tell you it's a ball buster? Well, his tummy's not exactly

anatomically correct, but his junk has been pushed in.

The bouncing Betty did serious damage up to 15 yards, but that's where her

killing power stops.

So we've got shrapnel as far as 20 yards out, but it's not penetrating. It's

just bouncing off.

I think it's clear here that the bouncing Betty is a lethal weapon. You

to remember, it's a heavy mine, and it was easily detectable.

That's why our mine is better.

The VC's answer to the bouncing Betty is a devious explosive combo.

The POMZ -2 landmine.

And the F -1 grenade.

Together, they make a savage surprise.

This little bad boy right here called POMZ -2M. This one can turn into...

thousands of little fragments.

And one thing is you see the hollow bottom here? So you can insert a wooden

stake and put this bad boy on and get a trip wire.

That's it. You're done. You have less than a minute.

By itself, the POMC -2 landmine can send fragmentation flying at flesh -ripping

speeds.

Okay, you ready, Doc?

Ready. Three, two...

Look at those guys. He shot his pants right off.

But Green Patch Hunter G is tripped. This is lethal.

The Ponzi blast is only half of the VH's explosive killer.

We like to call it double trouble.

You snip the wire, pull it out, guess what? Surprise.

The Viet Cong would plant F1 grenades under their Ponzi 2 mines.

When an enemy discovered the tripwire and disarmed the mine, his relief was

brief.

Vietcong landmines accounted for over 2 ,200 U .S. Marine casualties in 1966

alone.

To test the F -1's killing power, our experts have attached a grenade to a

disarmed Ponzi II.

The target will be a peacock because it comes closest to replicating human flesh

and bone.

Tuan, you ready?

Yes. On three, brother.

Three, two, one.

Yeah,

baby. Oh,

check it out. Look at that. Check this out. Wow. 150 yards.

That is shocking. Oh, baby.

Oh, my God. This pig is completely

in half. The upper portion of the pig has been spread.

And we're probably inhaling pig right now.

Both teams' anti -personnel minds have shown their gruesome, flesh -ripping

power.

But which one has the killing edge?

The bouncing body has a horrific design, which is engineered to cause as much

damage as possible.

However, when you look at the combination of the POMZ -2 with the F -1

these are being used to devastating effect in one package.

In explosive weapons, the edge goes to the Viet Cong for the POMZ -2 F -1

grenade combination.

Coming up.

Both teams unload with their favorite sidearms.

Nazi Waffen -SS or the Vietcong.

Who will be that deadliest warrior?

The despicable, deadly Nazi Waffen -SS versus the equally lethal Vietcong.

The Viet Cong can come close to the buff in any category.

The Viet Cong were better than the Nazis because they had just fought three

modern armies and defeated them all.

The Viet Cong were all about surprise.

An easily concealed favorite.

The Tokarev TT -33.

A compact, body -dropping death dealer.

This is the Tokarev TT -33, slim, easy to shoot, and it shoots a 7 .62x25mm

round. How many rounds in the clip are we talking? Eight rounds, and at close

range, because of the smaller diameter of the bullet, it actually can penetrate

through body armor that would usually stop a .357 round.

This is considered the Red Army's hand cannon.

But the Waffen SS had their own handheld eliminator.

The Mauser P96.

Masterly machined to deliver rapid fire destruction.

This is the Mauser Modelle Z 690.

The Mauser Model 1896.

Holds a 20 round magazine.

It's a 7 .63 by 25 millimeter.

Excellent accuracy to it because it's a longer barrel. It's a simple yet robust

design and is often nicknamed the broom handle because of the grip at the

bottom.

With test -built firearms, a head -to -head test to evaluate the gun's firing

rate, accuracy, and knockdown power.

Here's our test setup. Five targets, and you'll be on the clock.

That's the start line. BC, you're up first.

Are you ready? Yes.

Three, two, one, go!

Yeah, I am.

Our VC expert unloaded eight bullets, eliminating the five targets in 24

seconds. So you're averaging about three seconds a shot. But with killing power

like this, I'm not too worried.

Against the same target, will the Nazi's Mauser boom handle clean up?

Max, you ready with the timer?

Yes, sir.

High speeds up and armed.

Robert, are you ready? I am ready.

Three. Two, one, fire!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah, boy!

Woo!

I'm not the expert, but I had ten rounds to take out the target.

But in only half the time of the Vietcong. We just determined that your

was faster, but a little sloppier. Ten rounds in a faster rate turned his

to jelly.

Considering it took you ten rounds, I think you might want to throw in that

buttstock. A little bit of accuracy there. This can go full auto.

I want to see that right now.

With a click of a firing selector mechanism, the Mauser turned into a

automatic... Quick, fast, but... Light him up on your go!

You walked right up his chest. I mean,

unbelievable. You literally went from lower left to upper right with one, two,

three, four headshots.

It was all over in less than a second. That was 20 rounds.

20 rounds.

5 ,000 rounds a minute. A lot of them.

Pistols can definitely dish out the damage.

But our experts disagree on which one has the killing edge.

I got to go for the Mauser, more rounds in the magazine, and it can go full

auto. I think the Tokarev is a more reliable weapon, and because it forces

user to slow down, take his time, pick his shots, you're going to get more

deadly kills.

The Mauser has the ability to go 20 rounds, can go fully automatic.

I got to go with the Mauser.

In short -range weapons, the Nazis get the edge with the Mauser C96.

With the testing complete, which of these despicable forces will win?

I definitely think this is going to be a close battle. It's going to be a very

intricate chess match between these two warriors.

Nazi Waffen -SS.

Or be it Kong.

The battle begins.

The Nazi Waffen -SS.

Or be it Kong.

Our experts have finished their exhaustive test.

Yeah, baby!

Yahoo!

It's time to find out who is the deadliest warrior.

Our experts tested four weapons for each fighting force.

For special weapons, the Waffen -SS Flammenwerfer 41 flamethrower competed

against the Viet Cong's punji steak weapons.

Flamin' Verfer is a firestorm in the hands of the man who's using it, and

able to do a lot more damage than those punji stakes ever could.

Edge Nazi Waffen -SS.

For explosive weapons, we compared the Waffen -SS shrapnel -miner Bouncing

against the Vietcong's POM -Z2 mine with an F -1 grenade. Surprise.

The POM -Z2 with the F -1 booby trap were awesome.

The overriding factor was the booby trap. When you add that F1 grenade

that basically sealed the deal.

Edge, Viet Cong.

The long -range weapon, Waffen -SS, MP -28 submachine gun,

went up against the Viet Cong MAK -49.

I have to stick with the test results. And what did we see? Both men had

obstacles. Both men had three targets. Both men got the job done. Ed, this is a

draw. In long -range weapons, the warriors are even.

Final. For short -range weapons, the Nazi Mauser C -96.

Oppose the Vietcong Tokarev TT -33.

I'm going all Mauser on this one. Has the option of going fully auto, plus you

got the job done fast.

Edge. Nazi Waffen SS.

Now the weapon data is locked and loaded inside our computer simulation program

developed by Slytherin Studios.

When we hit the go button, we're going to run a thousand battles between these

five -man squads to see who is the deadliest warrior.

I don't know.

I don't know.

After 1 ,000 battles, the Waffen -SS emerged victorious.

614 victories.

The Viet Congs, 386.

For both warriors, submachine guns were the deciding weapon.

I don't like it, but in this matchup, we had two bad guys, and I think the worst

guys won.

I think the VC gave a really good fight.

But in this matchup, it just wasn't enough.

I'm shocked because I don't think the Waffen -SS has what it takes to beat the

Viet Cong.

The Vietcong did surprise me in some ways about the ingenuity of their

limited weaponry.

The Vosma says in the end, we're still superior.

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