Quote #13

I am not a judge. I don't want to express my opinion. Before I came to Mondorf, I wouldn't shake hands with Goring, I didn't like him. I never saw Streicher before Mondorf, and in the beginning I wouldn't talk with him. Now I do. We all have the same destiny, at least for the present, and I see no reason for not being on friendly terms with each other.

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