| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 28363 |
| QUOTATION: | When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already.... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), German dictator. speech, Nov. 6, 1933. Quoted in William L. Shirer, “Education in the Third Reich,” ch. 8, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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