“I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.”

—  Alfred Rosenberg

Quoted in "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership" - Page 171 - by Joachim C. Fest - History - 1999.

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