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@valkyrie Interesting. Thanks. That site is not a source. Also the date & numbering of the document only come up on ibiblio & Dokumen pub as a scan with no traceable source that I can find a reference to & DP is suspect. Nothing matching the key words comes up on a legit gov correspondence site..@cryptadamist
@Pineywoozle @valkyrie i saw it quoted in "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin" by Erike Larson and then i found this link: https://www.ibiblio.org/pha/paw/018.html
@Pineywoozle @valkyrie wikipedia's citation of the same quote is from Messersmith's papers at the University of Delaware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Messersmith
@cryptadamist Thanks so much. @valkyrie
@cryptadamist Again thank you for the source. I appreciate it. 
@valkyrie
@Pineywoozle @valkyrie @cryptadamist the letter is from George S. Messersmith's papers which are held at the University of Delaware.
here's a link to the letter in question: https://findingaids.lib.udel.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/178931
click "go to file" to read the 6 page letter which includes the original excerpt.
@d6 @Pineywoozle @valkyrie amazing find. but also JFC at the rest of the letter:
"Increasing numbers of Deutschnationale and Social-Democrats are being arrested, Even the Center Is ho longer safe, and priests are being quietly arrested In various parts of the country. I had a letter from Munich this morning telling about the attack by S.. men on one of the leading people of the Bayrische Volks-party, who as a result of the mistreatment is in the hospital.
I have just learnt that the former president of Iower Silesia has been arrested and taken to a concentration camp and was compelled to march bare-headed through the streets of Breslau and subjected to all sorts of indignities. I know this man personally and know him to be man of extraordinarily good character and service to
his country."
@cryptadamist Socialism is almost always just a steppingstone to Autocracy. @d6 @valkyrie
@d6 Thank you. The poster provided the source as well. I did look but couldn’t find it on my own. 
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