Gustav Stresemann Quotes

Gustav Stresemann — German Politician born on May 10, 1878, died on October 03, 1929

Gustav Stresemann was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor in 1923 and Foreign Minister 1923–1929, during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926... (wikipedia)

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Gustav Stresemann Quotes

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