“I know no parties anymore, only Germans!”

— Wilhelm II, German Emperor

Ich kenne keine Parteien mehr, ich kenne nur noch Deutsche!
Speech for the Reichstag (4 August 1914)
Quoted in Verhandlungen des Reichstags, Stenographische Berichte, 1914/16, Bd. 306, 1f
1910s

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Ich kenne keine Parteien mehr, Ich kenne nur Deutsche.

Rede zur Eröffnung der zweiten Session 1914 des Reichstags im Weißen Saale des Königlichen Schlosses zu Berlin am 4. August 1914. Reichstagsprotokolle 1914/1918,1 http://www.reichstagsprotokolle.de/Blatt_k13_bsb00003402_00013.html, Seite 2 rechte Spalte
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