“I am a German, but I am also, and always have been, a European and have always felt like a European. I have therefore long advocated an understanding with France; I did so, moreover, in the 1920s, during the severest crises, and also in the face of the Reich Government.”

— Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Adenauer: Memoirs 1945-1953 (1966)

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