“Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans.” Is the line from Berlin 1939? Or Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2025? If you guessed both, you’re correct.
The recent version appeared this past fall in The Harvard Salient, the university’s undergraduate conservative magazine, in an article about the threat of migration to Western civilization. The author, sophomore David F. X. Army, denied that he was intentionally quoting Adolf Hitler, who delivered a nearly identical line in a speech to the Reichstag in 1939. And his editor claimed that the wording was a common nationalist construction.
