“When I hear the word culture,” bristled Hermann Göring, “I reach for my revolver.” Since he was, after Adolf Hitler, the second most powerful man in the Third Reich, attention must be paid. And while he almost certainly lifted the line from a hack Nazi playwright named Hanns Johst, it would not have been wise back then to accuse Hitler’s Air Marshall of plagiarism. Take away his pistol and all…
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