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Who Said It - West or Hitler?

I'll give you a quote, you tell me whether 21st-Century musician Kanye "Ye" West or 20th-Century fascist dictator Adolf Hitler said it. To make it a little more challenging, all quotes have been translated to German and back to English using Google.
Hitler quotes in English from https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/30691.Adolf_Hitler
West quotes from https://www.thewrap.com/kanye-west-speaks-truth-kimmel-best-craziest-quotes/ and https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/12/02/kanye-wests-anti-semitic-troubling-behavior-heres-everything-hes-said-in-recent-weeks/?sh=7006977d6de3
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1. "It's not about racism anymore. It's classism."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
2. "I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
3. "Words build bridges to unexplored regions."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
4. "...I should be respected as such when I walk down the street. Don't ask me questions about something you've seen in the tabloids. Don't try to upset me."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
5. "The only preventive measure one can take is to live irregularly."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
6. "In a world where conservative opinions are considered controversial, we need to ensure we have the right to express ourselves freely."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
7. "I have to get the Jewish businessmen to make the contracts fair or die trying."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
8. "I'll just tell you the whole truth and you'll learn to love it."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
9. "Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
10. "If you want to live, you have to fight."
Kanye West
Adolf Hitler
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Level 60
Dec 5, 2022
Why do some of these quotes make Kanye sound like Hitler and Hitler sound like a reasonable man…
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Level 59
Dec 5, 2022
HAHA right??
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Level 57
Jun 6, 2023
To me as a German, it was actually pretty easy.

Expressions like "racism", "tabloids" or "conservative" (according to its commonly understood meaning today) weren't things in Germany in the 1930s.

The expression "or die trying" does have a more or less direct German translation, but it's nowhere near as frequently used as it is in English.

Finally, about number 8, it was more or less based on gut feeling, but I just thought that Hitler was way to deep in the we-them rhetoric to talk like that.

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