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Ernst Hanfstaengl

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Tell him the Reichstag is burning.
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Speaking to Joseph Goebbels, of a message for Adolf Hitler. Quoted in "Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris" - Page 457 - by Ian Kershaw - 1999

 
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