Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.
I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
When diplomacy ends, War begins.
Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.
The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.
I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.
Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.
...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the freedom and independence of the Fatherland, and the nation's ability to fulfill the mission appointed to it by the Creator of the universe.
Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.
War is life war is the origin of all things.
I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.
I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits. It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge.
Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.
This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)
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