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will i the German people, and il is I no means clear th he h not done It is a will i cpresj I in submission, not in mstble • ermination, that compensates for individual frus ti -i and in :urit) in m 01 national and racial egotism, that in ; I rmenl and personal defeat into the all embracing ihle power and therein be satisfied. \\ e n< I not lool to r an in tan< i of it. The look I saw on th« faces of a I i \ enna watching the bullying of some helpless Jews in tin early d. f the Anschluss has been duplicated, I suppose, in mor< e i r t in the i nited States. It is the distinction of Hitler

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