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The Berlin Wall is perhaps the most visible expression of the moral gulf between free democracy and totalitarian dictatorship.

— Helmut Kohl

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As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany.

This is a typical journalistic statement: It is correct, but it is not the truth.

The means of existence of our country will break down, once the watergates are open to the foreigners.

A successful industrial nation, meaning a nation with future, can not be organized as a collective holiday resort.

We will cut in half unemployment and the number of foreigners living in Germany.

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Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

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