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

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.

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

History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.

Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.

I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour. Germany does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding peace.