"If the allies had obliged me just one single time, I would have brought the German people behind me, yes; even today, I could still get them to support me. However, they (the allies) gave me nothing and the minor concessions they made, always came too late. Thus, nothing else remains for us but brutal force. The future lies in the hands of the new generation. Moreover, they, the German youth, who we could have won for peace and reconstruction, we have lost. Herein lies my tragedy and there, the allies' crime."
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Stresemann to the diplomat Sir Albert Bruce Lockhart in 1928
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Gustav Stresemann
1878 – 1929
deutscher Politiker, Friedensnobelpreisträger von 1926
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