IN HIS OWN EVIL WORDS

The story of Hitler — the greatest single enemy mankind has known since recorded history began — is ended. Few people are not grimly familiar with each chapter of it. Today it is opportune to recall not the deeds of Adolf Hitler, but his words — the words on which the world once hung breathless . . .

THE German Reich . . . has no other wish than to live on friendly and peaceable terms with all neighbouring states. — May 1935

ONLY the war-mongers think there will be a war. I think there will be a long period of peace. — January 1939

IN THE last analysis there are only three great statesmen in the world — Stalin, I and Mussolini. Mussolini is the weakest, for he has been unable to break the power of either the Crown or the Church. Stalin and I are the only ones who envisage the future and nothing but the future. — Speech to Nazi chiefs before the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939

I SHALL make a great prophecy. A great empire [British] will be destroyed. — July 20, 1940

THIS war will decide not only the destiny of the German Reich but of all Germanic peoples, and even of the entire Continent, for centuries to come. — September 1943

THE urge for self-preservation is eternally victorious. Before it, so-called humanitarianism, which is merely a compound of stupidity, cowardice and arrogance, melts like snow in the March sunshine. — Mein Kampf

I ACT according to the mind of the Almighty Creator; in taking up the struggle against the Jews, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. — Mein Kampf

WHAT is not yielded to gentle persuasion will have to be taken by the strong right arm. — Mein Kampf