"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on
   a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it
   is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
   don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in
   Germany. That is understood.  But after all, it is the leaders of the country
   who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the
   people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or
   a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.  Voice or no voice the people
   can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.  That is easy. All you
   have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
   pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. 
   It works the same in any country." 

   - Hermann Goering, April 18, 1946, head of the Nazi army's equivalent of the 
     Joint Chiefs of Staff and Head of the Luftwaffe. 

   From the book Nuremberg Diary (Farrar, Straus & Co 1947), by Gustave 
   Gilbert (an Allies appointed psychologist), who visited daily with 
   Goering and his cronies in their cells, afterwards making notes and ultimately 
   writing the book about these conversations. 

http://www.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Kapitan/USFP63.html
and at http://torus.math.uiuc.edu/jms/quotes.html
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
www.uwplatt.edu/~meinhard/HERMANNGOERING.pdf
http://centre.telemanage.ca/quotes.nsf/QuotesByCatPerson!ReadForm&Count=1000&RestrictToCategory=Hermann+Goering

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