“He is the only man…who has any political sense. Go and listen to him one day.”

—  Erich Ludendorff

About Hitler. Quoted in "Will Germany Crack?: A Factual Report on Germany from Within" - Page 134 - by Karl Boromäus Frank, Anna Caples - 1942

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