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  • ` ` Die Ausrottung der Besten, die jenen schwä'cheren Volken die Vernichtung brachte, hat die starken Germanen erst befähigt, auf den Trummern der antiken Welt neue dauerende Gemeinschaften zu errichten. ''

    The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915

  • On 15 June 1961, Walter Ulbricht, the Socialist Unity Party's First Secretary and German Democratic Republic (GDR) State Council chairman, said in a press conference with international media: "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten" (no one has the intention of erecting a wall).

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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