“I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence.”

—  Adolf Hitler

26 February.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)

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