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The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.

— Franz von Papen

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It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

You are mistaken. We've hired him.

In the interest of the entire nation we decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves, as a party or a movement, over and above the whole nation.

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