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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Transformation Quotes

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Quote #10

The people were there, and the land—the first dazed and bleeding and hungry, and, when winter came, shivering in their rags in the hovels which the bombings had made of their homes; the second a vast wasteland of rubble. The German people had not been destroyed, as Hitler, who had tried to destroy so many other peoples and, in the end, when the war was lost, themselves, had wished.

But the Third Reich had passed into history. (6.31.241-42)

This is how the Nazi revolution actually transformed Germany—into a war-traumatized, impoverished, humiliated people. No glory or greatness, just suffering.