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It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.

— Reinhard Heydrich

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The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself. We all have to dance to the tune which is already on the drum.

Europe is to be combed from East to West for Jews.

We will Germanize the Czech vermin.

Vain as a peacock, but mockingly aware of his vanity, clever, perhaps too clever by half, and contemptuous of the clumsiness of most of his colleagues and superiors, he nevertheless could be clumsy in his use of force and, unlike Himmler, was liable to over-reach himself.

Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question)

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