“He who creates value works, and is a worker. A movement that wants to free labor is a workers’ party.”

—  Joseph Goebbels

1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)

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Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897–1945

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