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Let them try me. I shall have plenty to say about the Allies. I have some very good friends among the Americans and English, and the French industrialists, too. I have done nothing of which I am ashamed.

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  1. That Germany beat these countries was due to better planning and not better preparedness.
  2. The enemy knows that he must wipe out our fighters. Once he has done that, he will be able to play football with the German people.
  3. He is a shrewd, Napoleonic, short man, who is very affable, but as poisonous as hell with his affability.
  4. It was true enough, he did not appear ashamed - merely worried about his own immunity from trial as a war criminal.
  5. There is no reason to believe that Milch was not absolutely sincere in his idealistic belief in Imperial Germany. Its destruction, however,…

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