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“Irgendwann fiel zum ersten Mal das scheinheilige Wort vom Totalitarismus, das einem nicht nur half, dem gefährlichen Begriff Faschismus, an dem man ja ausgiebig beteiligt gewesen war, aus dem Wege zu gehen, sondern auch jenes Gesellschaftssystem, das der Todfeind des Faschismus gewesen war, bei seinem Zusammenbruch die Hauptrolle gespielt und im Kampf die schwersten Opfer gebracht hatte, eben diesem Faschismus an die Seite zu rücken, ja, man hatte, wenn man es recht bedachte, bereits an der Spitze seiner SS-Panzergrenadiere die Hälfte des Totalitarismus bekämpft und durfte sich so mit Fug und Recht einen Freiheitskämpfer nennen.”

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