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"Material security alone will never be enough to make us happy. After all, we're human beings, with free opinions and our own beliefs. A regime which would tamper with these things has lost every spark of respect for man." - Robert Scholl, 'The White Rose', on Hitler's promise to end unemployment

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"He had the backing ... how he sold them, I have no idea.  I think maybe the background of it was money or, or power...  But he had the backing of the big industrialists in Germany. Germany, you know, today Germany, tomorrow the world." -Edward Adler on Hitler collections.ushmm.org/search/catal...

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The Opium Wars: that one time illegal drugs got so bad that China had to go to war with a 19th century drug cartel - the British government.

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“We all thought it was a joke, ‘Ah, it won’t amount to nothing, just another political party.'”⁠ - Edward Adler, Holocaust survivor, on the rise of the National Socialists in Germany collections.ushmm.org/search/catal...

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In 1933, with pressure from his son and the German tech moguls, President Hindenburg reluctantly appointed Hitler as Chancellor. Though powerful, he was not a dictator yet... www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-nazi-ris...

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"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."   - Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

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