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Mankind advances only through struggle.

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The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

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To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

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As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

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Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.

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History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

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Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

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To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

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Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Politician

Born: May 10th, 1878

Died: October 3rd, 1929

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