A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

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.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

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.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

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