“... it would be better for us to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal slavery under capitalism.”

—  Joseph Goebbels

The Devil’s Disciples: Hitler’s Inner Circle by Anthony Read (2004) p. 142, diary entry Oct. 23, 1925
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