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.

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.

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

All propaganda must be so popular... that even the most stupid...will understand 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.

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.