I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of
a sleepwalker.
Adolf Hitler
Speech in Munich March 1936, quoted in
Max Domarus (ed.) Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen 1932-1945 |
The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics.
It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding
and respect. He also helps to connect the countries in the spirit
of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die.
Adolf Hitler
Commenting on 1936 Olympic Games |
The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly
one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it.
It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom.
Adolf Hitler
To Reichstag in Berlin February 1936 |
It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe,
but it is the claim from which I will not recede and which,
God-willing, I will make good.
Adolf Hitler
Referring to The Sudetenland, speech at
Berlin Sportpalast September 1938 |
With regard to the problem of the Sudeten Germans, my patience
is now at an end!
Adolf Hitler
In speech at Berlin Sportpalast September
1938 |
Well, he [Chamberlain] seemed such a nice old gentleman, I
thought I would give him my autograph as a souvenir.
Adolf Hitler
After Munich Agreement September 1938 |
I believe that it was God's will to send a youth from here
into the Reich, to let him grow up, to raise him to be the leader
of the nation so as to enable him to lead back his homeland
into the Reich.
Adolf Hitler
April 1938, closing speech of election
campaign in Vienna on eve of polling |
If the international Jewish financiers . . . should again
succeed in plunging the nations into a world war the result
will be . . . the annihilation of the Jewish race throughout
Europe.
Adolf Hitler
Speech to Reichstag in Berlin January 1939 |
In starting and waging a war it is not right that matters,
but victory.
Adolf Hitler
Said in 1939, quoted in The Rise and Fall
of the Third Reich by William Shirer |
England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder
into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries
.Not
even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What
should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over
an ally.
Adolf Hitler
Said in 1939 |