Today I am at the head of the strongest Army in the world, the most gigantic Air Force and of a proud Navy. Behind and around me stands the Party with which I became great and which has become great through me... Our enemies must not deceive themselves - in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today.

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

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.

I have my Death's-Head units ready ... to send to death mercilessly and without compassion men, women and children of Polish derivation.

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.