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The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.

Hjalmar Schacht

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Hjalmar Schacht
Age: 93 †
Born: 1877
Born: January 22
Died: 1970
Died: June 3
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