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Germany was to be made one vast wasteland. Nothing was to be left with which the German people might somehow survive their defeat.

— William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960)

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I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state.

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The way would be open for the soldiers, that is, if Chamberlain didn't pull another Munich. "I am only afraid that some Schweinehund (dirty dog) will make a proposal for mediation."

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