World War Quotes

With Russia smashed, Britain's last hope would be shattered. Germany will then be master of Europe and the Balkans.

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.

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.

Is Paris burning?

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.

God the Almighty has made our nation. By defending its existence we are defending His work...Therefore, it is all the more necessary on this twelfth anniversary of the rise to power to strengthen the heart more than ever before and to steel ourselves in the holy determination to wield the sword, no-matter where and under what circumstances, until final victory crowns our efforts.

If we don't take Maikop and Grozny, then I must put an end to the war.

Victory at Kursk will be a beacon for the whole world.

Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over.

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.

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.

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 battle beginning today will decide the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years.

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 want today to be a prophet again: if international Jewry inside and outside of Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth and therefore the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.

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

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

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