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Goering is an army man. He imagines that it is enough to give orders for industry to carry them out. If the industrialists declare that it is impossible, they are accused of sabotage. Soon Germany will not be any different from Bolshevik Russia; the heads of enterprises who do not fulfill the conditions which the ‘Plan’ prescribes will be accused of treason against the German people, and shot.

— 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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Hitler swore before Field Marshal von Hindenburg a solemn oath to respect a constitution which guaranteed the rights of man and political freedom in Germany.

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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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