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"I wish to see in the eyes of my youth, the ancient and glourious glem of the beast of prey...."?

Ok..what famous person said that? anyone know?


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Adolf Hitler, apparently.
It is quoted with some variation in a few places around the internet, but as may of them are of an eschalological or conspiratorial bent, I wondered about its authenticity until I came across this in The City of Man: A Declaration on World Democracy by Herbert Agar, et al

http://www.kreuzgang.org/dload.php?actio...

"I shall eradicate the thousands of years of human domestication," said Hitler. "I want to see again in the eyes of youth the gleam of the beast of prey. A youth will grow up before which the world will shrink."