“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
“As lunatics like that drunkard Churchill and Maccabeans and numskulls like that brilliantined dandy Eden are at the helm we’ve to be prepared for just about anything!”
“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence”
“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
At one point, Hitler managed to joke about the help he was receiving from intercepted American messages with his heavy Germanic humour: “Let’s hope that the American legation in Cairo continues to keep us so excellently informed of British military plans with its badly enciphered cables.”
“If Churchill were suddenly to disappear, everything could change in a flash. The British aristocracy might perhaps become conscious of the abyss opening before them— and might well experience a serious shock! These British, for whom, indirectly, we have been fighting and who would enjoy the fruits of our victory…”
Hitler remarked to von Brauchitsch, the commander in chief of the German Army, that “the British will be ready to talk only after a beating.”
