We shall only talk of peace when we have won the war. The Jewish capitalist world will not survive the twentieth century.

I am now fifty. I would rather have the war now than when I am fifty-five or sixty.

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.

Alone... I wish to declare... my patience is now at an end.

I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.