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Why do I have to enter my email address? January 28, 2020 – 09:48 dpa fact check # No evidence of alleged Churchill quote Berlin (ots) An alleged quote from Winston Churchill (1874-1965) has been circulating for years on the Internet. The former British Prime Minister is reported to have said: "That Germany's unforgivable crime before the Second World War was Attempt to separate its economic power from the world trading system and to create our own exchange system in which world finance no longer exists could earn money.\" The words are mainly used in English, but also in German. EVALUATION: There is no evidence that Churchill said these words has. Supposed references to sources lead nowhere. They appear on the internet Words also only appeared in 2002. FACTS: Some social media posts mention Churchill's memoirs cited as the source for the alleged quote. What this means is being multi-volume work "The Second World War". Searched you can search the individual volumes online using the expression "unforgivable crime". (unforgivable crime), one realizes: These words are not used anywhere single place. Other online posts claim that the sentences came from someone alleged foreword to the new edition of the book "Propaganda in the Next War" by Sidney Rogerson from 1938. The new edition is scheduled for 2001 have appeared. However, if you look for the book title \"Propaganda in the Next War\" in the WorldCat library database, there is no output of the Work from 2001. ( WorldCat records about half Billion bibliographic resources and is therefore considered the most comprehensive Library database worldwide. ( On the Internet you can find a text that turns out to be the preface in question outputs. ( What is striking, however, is that according to the Information in the source code was only posted on the website in March 2002. Churchill's alleged quote is also cited without citing the source. He is said to have uttered the words to Lord Robert Boothby, a politician the Conservative Party. ( A search of Boothby's works yields no results: The words \"unforgivable crime\" does not appear in his book \"Recollections of a Rebel\" ( still in \"My Yesterday, Your Tomorrow\" ( or in \"I Fight to Live\" ( According to the Churchill book, the lines in Churchill's remaining works are also Expert Richard Langworth not to be found. Langworth says he has Access to 80 million digitized words by and about Churchill, including his books, essays and speeches. ``` --- ``` Left: Quote in German on Facebook: Quote in English on Facebook with source reference \"Foreword\": Quote in German on Facebook with source reference "Memoirs": Alleged foreword to a 2001 edition of "Propaganda in the Next War": (archived: Search for "Propaganda in the Next War" at WorldCat: war/oclc/896509346/editions?editionsView=true&referer=br Biographical information about Robert Boothby: heritage/evolutionofparliament/houseoflords/house-of-lords- reform/overview/first-life-peers/sir-robert-john-graham-boothby/ (archived: Information about WorldCat: Search for the term "unforgivable crime" in the volumes of "The Second World Was\": x_-8uqPnAhUDaVAKHTecBEwQ6AEIMjAB#v=onepage&q=unforgivable%20crime&f=false wbjFu6PnAhUOPFAKHc9HCvMQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=unforgivable%20crime&f=false Search for the term "unforgivable crime" in Boothby's books: ``` - \"Recollections of a Rebel\": ( ``` ``` - \"My Yesterday, Your Tomorrow\": ( ``` ``` - \"I Fight to Live\": ( ``` ``` --- ``` Contact the dpa fact check team: faktencheck@dpa.com © dpa German Press Agency GmbH. 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An alleged quote from Winston Churchill 18741965 has been circulating on the Internet for years The former British Prime Minister is said to have said Germany's unforgivable crime before the Second World War was the attempt to separate its economic power from the world trading system and to create its own exchange system from which world finance could no longer profit The words are mainly used in English but also in German