“Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.”

—  Walther Funk

To Leon Goldensohn, May 11, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

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