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For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

— Wilhelm II, German Emperor

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There is only one person who is master in this Empire and I am not going to tolerate any other.

The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

Where my Guards appear, there is no room for democracy.

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