I believe it was God's will that from here [Austria] a boy was sent into the Reich and that he grew up to become the leader of the Nation . (April 1938)
Freed from the heavy burden of expectation weighing on us for a long time, I now consider that the moment has come again to address myself to the German people without having to resort to lies, either to myself or to the public.
I read to confirm my ideas.
I am certainly not a brutal man by nature, and consequently it is cold reason that guides my actions...This may often pain me personally, and it may well lead to errors which one will later regretfully acknowledge
I never read a novel, that kind of reading annoys me.
If Germany hadn't had the good fortune to let me take power in 1933, Europe today would no longer exist.
My dog understands perfectly everything I say to him. I am the one who does not understand.
Unlike most people, I'm always ready to learn.
I'd rather be regarded as a brutal than as an idiot. - I >
My dearest wish would be to wander about in Italy as an unknown painter.
How humanely sensitive we are is shown by the fact that we consider it a maximum of brutality to have liberated our country from 600,000 Jews. And yet we accepted ...the evacuation of our own compatriots.
I have a bad conscience when I feel that I've not been fair to somebody.
How glad I'd have been in 1933 to find the possibility ... of giving the workers jobs... Whoever opened a new firm, I freed him from taxes.
I would prefer not to see anyone suffer, not to do harm to anyone. But when I realize that the species is in danger, then in my case sentiment gives way to the coldest reason
Who escapes from criticism? I myself, if I disappear today, a time will come ... when I shall be violently attacked. History will make no exception in my favor. But what importance has that? it makes only another hundred years for these shadows to be effaced. I don't concern myself with such things. I go my way.
To whoever thinks he knows me, I lie even more. - Hitler was an incredible actor who knew how to approach each person he met, and changed his personality to suit the person he was meeting. The only person that didn't believe his acting was Generalisimo Franco of Spain, who after meeting him, said Hitler was just an actor and that there was nothing honest about him.
[on territories on the east] nothing would be a worse mistake ... than to educate the masses there... the people should know just enough to recognize the signs on the roads.
It's important that we should shape Germany in such a way that whoever comes to visit us may be cured of his prejudices concerning us. I don't want to force National Socialism on anybody....Many Frenchmen won't want us to leave Paris, since their relations with us have made them suspect in the eyes of the Vichy French.
For the good of German people, we must wish for a war every 15 or 20 years. An army whose sole purpose is to preserve peace leads only to playing soldiers...Wars drives the people to proliferation, they teach us not to fall into the error of being content with a single child in each family.
I don't think a man should die of hunger because he has been my opponent. If he was a base opponent, then off to the concentration camp with him.
Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him marched off into a concentration camp.
If anyone asks us where we obtain the right to extend the Germanic space to the east, we reply that, for a nation, her awareness of what she represents carries this right with it. It's success that justifies everything.
If today you do harm to the Russians, it is so as to avoid giving the opportunity of doing harm to us.
in the future every worker will have his holidays...
But I am not of the opinion that the fuehrer must be appointed for life.
I'm convinced that there are Jews in Germany who've behaved correctly - in the sense that they've invariably refrained from doing injury to the German idea.
The Jew must be cleared of Europe. Otherwise no understanding will be possible between Europeans. It's the Jew who prevents everything. When I think about it, I realize that I am extraordinarily humane.... in the POW camps , many are dying. It's not my fault. I didn't want either the war of the POW camps. Why did the Jew provoke this war.
Probably many Jews are not aware of the destructive power they represent.
Jesus was most certainly not a Jew.
[on Heydrich's murder in Prague] that a man as irreplaceable as Heydrich should expose himself to unnecessary danger, I can only condemn as stupid and idiotic.
[on asked for permission for a mass for SS Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich]...he would have been much better employed if he had previously offered prayers for the safety and welfare of the Reich Protector!
The essential thing, is that a dog should always sleep besides its master.
The military salute is not a fortunate gesture....On parades , when mounted officers give the military salute, what a wretched figure they cut! the raised arm of the German salute , that has a quite different style.
[man]...exploits the ground beneath his feet without ever asking whether he is disposing thus of products that would perhaps be indispensable to the life of other regions. If one examined the problem closely, one would probably find here the origin of the catastrophes that occur periodically in the Earth's surface.
The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's child. Both are inventions of the Jew....Without Christianity, we should not have had Islam. The Roman empire, under Germanic influence, would have developed in the direction of world domination, and humanity would not have extinguished 15 centuries of civilizations at a single stroke.
Corporal punishment would often be much better than imprisonment. In prison ...the old lags he meets there teach him , first that he was stupid to be caught, and secondly to do better next time
The Church's friendship costs too dear.
But there is one thing I can say to the eaters of meat, that the world of the future will be vegetarian.
I have six divisions of SS composed of men absolutely indifferent of matters of religion. It doesn't prevent them from going to their deaths with serenity in their souls.
It's not fair to demand more of a man than he can give.
When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let's be the only people who are immunized against the disease.
[On Spain] Monserrat! the word makes the legend come alive. It has its origin in the hostile encounter between the Moors and the Romano-Germanic elements. A lovely country. One can imagine the castle of the holy grail there.
Secrets are badly kept amongst the Italians, and what Italy has today, the rest of the world will have soon.
To troops, the Spaniards are a crew of ragamuffins. They regard a rifle as an instrument that should not be cleaned under any pretext....They don't take up their posts, or, if they do take them up, they do so in their sleep. When the Russians arrive the natives have to wake them up. But the Spaniards have never yielded an inch of ground. One can't imagine more fearless fellows. They scarcely take cover. They flout death. I know, in any case, that our men are always glad to have Spaniards as neighbors in their sector.... nothing has changed in 100 years. Extraordinarily brave, tough against privations, but wildly undisciplined.
But my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance. I feel myself more akin to any European country , no matter which.
I'm going to become a religious figure... already Arabs and Moroccans are mingling my name with their prayers.
People speak of an intervention from Heaven which decided the civil war [in Spain] in favor of Franco. Perhaps so, but it was not an intervention from ... the Mother of God who has recently been honored with a Field Marshall's baton, but the intervention of the German general von Richthofen and the bombs his squadrons rained from the heavens that decided the issue.
According to the Americans themselves, America has the finest, biggest and most efficient of everything in the wide world. And when one then reads a book like this about them, one sees that they have the brains of a hen...I grant you that our standard of life is lower. But the German Reich has two hundred and seventy opera houses - a standard of cultural existence of which they over there have no conception. They have clothes, food, cars and a badly constructed house - but with a refrigerator..
Spaniards and Americans simply cannot understand each other. Those things which the Spaniards venerates most highly mean nothing to the American, and to the Spaniard the American way of life is a closed book.
[on the Spanish civil war] if I had not decided in 1936 to send him the first of our Junker aircraft, Franco would never had survived. Today, his salvation is attributed to Saint Isabella! Isabella the Catholic.