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After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.

— Hermann Göring Nuremberg Diary (1947)

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Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

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My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate, nothing more.

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

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The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

Nuremberg Diary (1947)

Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.

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