“...the Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche - “...the Germans love frankness and...” 1

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