“When the enemy is demoralized from within… A single blow must destroy him. Aerial attacks, stupendous in their mass effect, surprise, terror, sabotage, assassinations from within, the murder of leading men… that is the war of the future.”

—  Hermann Rauschning

Source: The Voice of Destruction (1940), p. 10

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