Soldiers of the West Front! Dunkirk has fallen ... with it has ended the greatest battle in world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knows no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

I am the first soldier of the German Reich... I will not take it off again until victory is secured or I will not survive the outcome.

A state of no less than 36,000,000 inhabitants... took up arms against us... Their confidence ... knew no bounds.

If, however, the opinions of Messrs. Churchill and his followers should prevail, this statement will have been my last.