“I was a Nazi and I remain one…The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.”

—  Joachim Peiper

Interview with a French writer Peiper spoke with in 1967, quoted in The Devil's Adjutant by Michael Reynolds, page 260.

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