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Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

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If we had wanted to conduct a pogrom against the Jews, it would all have been over now.

The same Jewry now is seeking to smirch Germany's renaissance.

The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

Tell him the Reichstag is burning.

In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.

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The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

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