"I need them for the manoeuvring of my left wing in the next war."

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MonarchistsPeople of Nazi GermanyMilitary leaders from GermanyPrussiansPresidents of Germany
Original Language: English

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Recommending the annexation of the Baltic Provinces at the Crown Council at Kreuznach (18 December 1917), quoted in John W. Wheeler-Bennett, The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics 1918-1945 (London: Macmillan, 1964), p. 511, n. 2