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Just as nationalism protects a people from outside forces, so socialism serves a people's domestic needs. We want the people's strength to be released within the nation, forging the people once more into a strong block. The individual citizen must again have the sense that, even if he is finds himself in the simplest and lowest position, that his life and opportunities are assured.

— Hermann Göring Nationalism and Socialism (1933)

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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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