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| | Commentary Magazine - Es Geschah in Deutschland, by Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | ULRICH VON HASSEL, a German diplomat who was executed by Hitler for his complicity in the assassination attempt of July zo, 944, wrote in his posthumously published diaries: "Respectable... |
 | | ...A reading of Schwerin von Krosigk's reminiscences furnishes yet another proof, if proof were needed, that those Germans (and nonGermans) who hoped that the lamb, moderate nationalism, would swallow the Hitlerite wolf were the victims of a peculiar illusion... |
 | | ...It was in this stifling milieu that Schwerin von Krosigk rose to eminence: a disgruntled Junker, something of a financier, a bit of a cultural man, he impressed the bosses of Hugenberg's German National party-for the most part hidebound, unscrupulous men of business-as much with his lively, highly exploitable intelligence as with his aristocratic breeding... |
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