Appeasement (a definition): “a clever plan of selling off your friends in order to buy off your enemies.”

We shall never be great statesmen unless we have a nucleus of … eighty to one hundred million colonizing Germans! … Part of this nucleus is Austria. … But Bohemia and Moravia also belong to it, as well as the western regions of Poland. … The Czechs and the Bohemians we shall transplant to Siberia or the Volhynian regions. … The Czechs must get out of Central Europe. As long as they remain, they will always be a center of Hussite–Bolshevik disintegration. Only when we are able and willing to achieve this shall I be prepared … to take the deaths of two or three million Germans on my conscience.

To celebrate my fiftieth birthday, please invite a series of foreign guests, among them as many cowardly civilians and democrats as possible, whom I will present a parade of the most modern of armies.

Had a French premier said in 1933 (and if I had been French premier, I would have said it): the man who wrote the book Mein Kampf … has become Reich chancellor. The man cannot be tolerated in our neighborhood. Either he goes or we march. That would have been entirely logical.