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Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.

— Baldur von Schirach

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Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.

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