“While soldiers were winning victories, so-called labor leaders were engaged in high treason.”

— Werner von Blomberg

Quoted in "A History of Militarism: Civilian and Military" - Page 430 - by Alfred Vagts - History - 1967

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German field marshal 1878–1946

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