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Gustav Stresemann

"A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists."

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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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"But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation."
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"This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism."
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