“Weighing the sacrifices of the last war, we want to be true friends of a peace which will at last heal the wounds from which all have suffered.”

—  Adolf Hitler

Speech in Potsdam (21 March 1933), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 9
1930s

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