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On June 30, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump -- in reference to an ongoing controversy over the display and removal of monuments and statues associated with slavery and the Confederacy -- tweeted that This is a battle to save the Heritage, History, and Greatness of our Country!: Shortly afterwards, a meme circulated via social media presented Trump's words as a perfect echo of a passage in a speech given by German dictator Adolf Hitler some eighty years earlier, in which the latter supposedly proclaimed, Dies ist ein Kampf um die Rettung des Erbes, der Geschichte und der Größe unseres Landes!: However, this statement -- as worded here -- is not a documented utterance of Hitler's. It appears that someone just ran the wording of Trump's tweet through Google Translate and attributed the result to Hitler, as references to this phrasing are not found elsewhere and only appeared on the internet at the same time the meme itself did. Hitler did give a speech on Jan. 30, 1939, the infamous Reichstag Speech in which he warned the German public and the world that the outbreak of war would mean the end of European Jewry. During that speech, Hitler did talk of the importance of preserving Germany and its culture, but he did not phrase that concept as succinctly as presented in the meme, and he was primarily speaking out against the incursion of foreigners and Jews into German territory and government, not warning against an internecine domestic battle over German heritage and history:
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