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The biggest mistake of Hitler, I have to say the main fault, was that under his government these terrific exterminations of men happened, which went on behind the backs of the German nation, which would never have tolerated them, but the government kept these crimes completely secret from the German people.

— Karl Dönitz The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007)

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