"During the years of the so-called peace, politics—total politics—have only a meaning in as much as they prepare for total war."
— Erich Ludendorff

January 1, 1970

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Der Totalkrieg (Berlin, 1933), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 357