“After mastering its internal divisions, National Socialist Germany has proceeded step by step to cast off its enslavement…. Nevertheless, the Jewish-internationalist capitalists in connection with socially reactionary classes in the Western States have successfully roused the world democracies against Germany.”

—  Adolf Hitler

As quoted in The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh, p.1909
1940s

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