‘You,’ he said, ‘are always niggling and wilfully ignoring the monumental developments in the resurgence of the German people that are taking place today.’ (I can remember the very word ‘resurgence’ to this day!) ‘You grasp at every little excess and split legal hairs to criticise and find fault. You seem to be unaware, I fear, that today people of your ilk represent a latent danger for the state, and that the state has the right and the duty to react accordingly – at the very least when one of you goes so far as to dare to offer open resistance.’ Those were his words, soberly and slowly
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