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We did not complain in the past because Germany was not rearmed. We complain now because we are strong enough to do so.

— Joseph Goebbels

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Source: Answer to Lord Halifax, who had asked Goebbels why he had waited until now to complain about the treatment of Germany in the British press (November 1937), quoted in Ivone Kirkpatrick, The Inner Circle (1959), p. 101
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