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At the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century the generally dominant idea, derived from Ricardo and Adam Smith, was that commerce must be entirely unfettered, and that free trade was fundamentally linked with economic life.

— Friedrich Thyssen I Paid Hitler (1941)

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Goering is like a child; he wants everything he sees.

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What we witness to-day in German politics, as well as in German economy, is a manifestation of the Prussian spirit.

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The true Germany, with its western traditions, must be separated from Prussia, which belongs to the east.

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