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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.

We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.