Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

One can only repeat about air warfare: we are in a position of almost hopeless inferiority and must grin and bear it as we take the blows from the English and the Americans. [Germans in the bombed cities] are gradually beginning to lose their courage. Hell like that is hard to bear for any length of time, especially since the inhabitants along the Rhine and Ruhr see no prospect of improvement.

It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.