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During the years of the so-called peace, politics—total politics—have only a meaning in as much as they prepare for total war.

— Erich Ludendorff

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There is but one hope, and this hope is embodied in the national groups which desire our recovery.

A field marshal is born, not made!

I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.

What the enemy allows to us and praises in us, must be bad for us.

I reject Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.

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