By Adolf Hitler ∙ June 22, 1941
On the morning of June 22, 1941, Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels announced to the world the startling news that German forces, together with Finnish and Romanian troops, had struck against the vast Soviet Union. On German radio he read Adolf Hitler’s historic proclamation justifying the attack. Among other things, he said that Stalin had massed…
By Adolf Hitler ∙ December 1, 1988
It has often been said that Hitler's greatest mistakes were his decisions to go to war against the Soviet Union and the United States. Whatever the truth may be, it's worth noting his own detailed justifications for these grave decisions. On Thursday afternoon, 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,…
By Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring ∙ January 1, 1945
Regarding an Allied radio broadcast announcement that the Jews were being exterminated: “Really, the Jews should be grateful to me for wanting nothing more than a bit of hard work from them.”—Adolf Hitler quoted in: David Irving, Hitler's War (London: Focal Point, 1991), p. 427. “In order to put a stop to the epidemics, we…
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