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"By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism."
"Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend."
"In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum."
"With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat."
"After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany."
"How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence."
"The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power."
"Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse."
"It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain."
"They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust."
"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
"Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now; people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God."
"Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany."
"America cultivates best what Germany brought forth."
"Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany."
"From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves."
"A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe."
"We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain...and yet the US of A still hasn't had a women president. It's just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress."
"I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found."
"We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan."
