"I also admit that we must not completely bury our heads in the sand in the face of those forces in the world which will try to defend liberalism and individualism. For they, too, have made a religion of those concepts. As long as only those with a vested interest in economic liberalism are at the helm in the authoritarian democracies—which are really not democracies at all—and in nations dominated by capitalism—where the word democracy is derived, not from demos, the people, but from daemon, the devil: until then they will wage war against socialism; and when there is no other choice, they will drive their peoples and their youth to the slaughtering block for the sake of their economic power, for their money bags, for base mammon. And the people will be stupid enough, and will be kept stupid enough, to go to war in the belief that they are fighting for their fatherland. But they are fighting only to maintain the domination of capital over labor and for the interest paid on that capital."
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Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant
Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant are the published memoirs written by Otto Wagener about Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP’s early history. A German major general and, for a period, Adolf Hitler's economic advisor and confidant, Wagener wrote his memoirs in 1946 while Wagener was being held by the British. His work was not published until seven years after his death, in 1978 in German. The English edition was published in 1985 by Yale University Press. His memoirs are used, to some degree, by Third Reich
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