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The German people trusted the Führer. Given his authoritarian direction of the state, they had no inﬂuence on events. Ignorant of the crimes of which we know today, the people have fought with loyalty, self-sacrifice, and courage, and they have suffered too in this life-and-death struggle into which they were arbitrarily thrust. The German people are free from blame.

— Hermann Göring

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

Radio broadcast (1936)

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.

Nuremberg Diary (1947)

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.

Nuremberg Diary (1947)

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

Nuremberg Diary (1947)

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