Since Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas has leaned heavily on it in his latest book, Points of Rebellion, and both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post choose to lead with it in their reviews of that book, it seems that now is as good as any time to lay to rest an apocryphal Hitler quote which has been repeated by such disparate individuals as black comedian-politician Dick Gregory and conservative Chicago Tribune columnist Walter Trohan.
The questionable quote goes something like this:
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