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  •    Wenn das deutscheVolk dieWaffen niederlegte, wu«  rden die Sowjets†ganz Ost- und Su« d osteuropa zuzu«  glich des gr o« ÞtenTeiles des Reiches besetzen.Vor diesem einschlieÞlich der Sowjetunion riesigenTerritorium wu«  rde sich sofort ein eisernerVorhang heruntersenken. Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets†would occupyall eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich.Over all thisterritory, whichwith the Soviet Unionwould be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend. See also Churchill 217:92.

    - (Paul) Joseph Goebbels
      In Das Reich, a Nazi propaganda weekly, quoted in The Times and the Manchester Guardian on 23 Feb.

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