“As a peace-loving man, I have made every effort to give the German nation the defence and the weapons which are appropriate to persuade others also for peace. A hedgehog never attacks another animal except when it is attacked. No one should come near us. We want only our quiet and the right to live.”

— Adolf Hitler

Speech in Weimar (6 November 1938), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
1930s

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