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In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband!

The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933, Hitler boasted, would endure for a thousand years,

Three youths in Hanover who snatched a lady's handbag in the black-out have been sentenced to death.

Henderson, Hitler lapsed into a typical display of sentimental hogwash, though

Himmler announced today that a Polish farm labourer had been hanged for sleeping with a German woman. No race pollution is to be permitted. Another

It was at this time that he published an open letter to a Communist leader assuring him that Nazism and Communism were really the same thing.

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.

Demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it.

Soviet foreign policy turns out to be as "imperialist" as that of the czars. The Kremlin has betrayed the revolution.

After midnight and no air-raid,

The Germans, if one may risk a generalization, have a weakness for blaming foreigners for their failures.

All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.
from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education

obvious they had not heard the

The goose-step has always seemed to me to be an outlandish exhibition of the human being in his most undignified and stupid state.

The government [Hitler promised] will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures. Neither

they knew also that the Communist underground was directed from Moscow and served chiefly as an espionage source for the Russians.*

He frequently lost all self-control and his language grew increasingly violent. In his intimate circle he now found no restraining influence.47

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.