The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
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To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
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Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.
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As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
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For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.
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A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
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