“When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.”

— Robert Ley

Quoted in The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze - Page 529

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Nazi politician 1890–1945

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