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By placing these people with foreign ideas in camps, German blood was saved. Would it have been better to have a civil war?

— Karl Dönitz

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With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

I would rather eat dirt than see my grandchildren grow up in the filthy, poisonous atmosphere of Jewry.

I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

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