Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.

My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.

The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.

We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees.

National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great. The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.