Comment on Anon is all smiles

• mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’ve fooled anyone, it’s an easy mistake to make

  His actual quote is “WENN DU WIE DIE SONNE SCHEINEN WILLST, MUSST DU ZUERT WIE SIE BRENNEN”

  and I think it’s beautiful

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  • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t find a source for it, though. It’s definitely not from Mein Kampf, as I went through all occurrences of Sonne and it’s not there. There is one quote in there that says: “only once the sun went down can the moon shine”, but that’s quite different. I think it’s just another misattributed quote.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    *zuerst

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    • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      genau

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• derry@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was joking, thought you made it up. Said Sherman as a joke in regards to the scorched earth policy he used in the march to the sea of the American civil war

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  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A little too poetic for Sherman anyway. “War is hell” was definitely one of his quotes though.

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