The Economist (US), September 14th, 2002
Though little known today, he was one of the 20th century's great might-have-beens
GUSTAV STRESEMANN, Germany's foreign minister, died in early October 1929, just weeks before the Wall Street crash that gave Hitler his opportunity. An estimated 200,000 people watched his funeral procession in Berlin and Count Harry Kessler noted in his diary, "It is an irreparable loss whose consequences cannot be foreseen." The sense of shock was equally great outside Germany. Aristide Briand, Stresemann's ally in the Franco-German rapprochement of the 1920s, reportedly said, "Order a coffin for two."
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