You should know thay the birds helped us too... When a magpie hears a stranger coming it will always squawk. Give out a warning signal. They'd gotten used to us; the Germans smelled different: they wore cologne, washed with scented soap, smoked cigarettes [...] We'd strip their dead down to their underwear! Our dogs would eat their hands and faces. Even the animals got sucked into the war.

— Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Aleksievich (Page 304)