“We have a great aim before us; a mighty work of reform of ourselves and our lives, of our life in common, of our economy, of our culture. This work does not disturb the rest of the world. We have enough to do in our own house.”

—  Adolf Hitler

Source: Speech in Gera (17 June 1934), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 9

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