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Date: 1932
“this form of imperialism… presents a particular threat to a people forced in a defensive posture, like we Germans; it presents us with the greater threat of military occupation and economic exploitation”
-- Carl Schmitt, Die USA und die völkerrechtlichen Formen des modernen Imperialismus, p. 365




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