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“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith… We need believing people.”

— Adolf Hitler The German Churches Under Hitler by Ernst Heimreich (1979)

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The god of war has gone over to the other side.

National Socialism always bears in mind the interests of the people as a whole and not the interests of one class or another.

God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.

There are people who have a true talent to spoil my every joy.

Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

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