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Tue 22 Apr, 2008 11:49 pm
I wonder if anyone can help me track down the origin of this approximate quote:
XXX was German, XXX is German, XXX will always be German.
XXX could have been the Sudetenland or Danzig(Gdansk). Hitler or one of his henchmen is often credited with such a quote, but I have been unable to find any evidence of who actually said something like that and when. I want to use this quote in one of my courses, but only if I can find the exact wording and the source (who and when).
Quote:...when Goebbels held his last radio speech from the bunker in Berlin. He shouted with pathos, "Berlin was German, is German and will always be German!"
(Memoirs of Kurt Moser and Ilse Moser)...
Thanks, it was not what I thought. There must have been other phrases used then to claim certain territories as part of the Reich.
Sure, Paaskynen!
I has been said about so many other places!
- Der Elsass ist deutsch und wird immer deutsch bleiben
- Schlesien ist deutsch und wird immer deutsch bleiben
- Berlin war immer deutsch ist deutsch und wird immer deutsch bleiben
- Böhmen und Mähren ist deutsch und wird immer deutsch bleiben
- Südtirol war deutsch, ist deutsch und wird immer deutsch bleiben
@Francis,
Thanks Francis,
Perhaps now in Russia similar phrases are used to lay claim to territories in Europe. My home Finland being one of the territories so described...
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