Quotes from David Irving

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Because there is only one salvation left for Germany, and that is Hitler.

There is an aphorism about Prussian militarism, coined by Mirabeau, which aptly fits the pre-Hitler Reichswehr: 'Prussia isn't a country with an army – it's an army with a country!

The terrible thing is that Hitler's enemies know him better than anybody, and the press – which is of course wholly in Jewish hands – has defamed and ridiculed the man. An old trick: first a deathly silence, then scorn, then all-out war – and then annexation. (There are Jewish firms that manufacture swastikas.)

We need a dictator who is a genius, if we are to arise again.

History judges you by your success or failure," he pontificated. "That's what counts. Nobody asks the victor whether he was in the right or wrong." Before

As Robespierre once said of Marat, 'The man was dangerous: he believed in what he said.

History judges you by your success or failure," he pontificated. "That's what counts. Nobody asks the victor whether he was in the right or wrong.

Many a Hitler decision – decisions that infuriated his generals by their seeming lack of logic at the time – can probably be explained by the work of Göring's Forschungsamt, Ribbentrop's ministry and the naval staff's cryptanalysis branch.

To put the military factors in their proper perspective when deciding the political objective is a task for the statesman alone. Were he to wait until his armed forces were completely ready for war, then he would never act because armed forces are never ready – nor are they ever to be considered ready.

In these outpourings Hitler's envy of Britain became plain – his envy of the national spirit, master-race qualities and genius whereby the British had won their colonial empire. Other themes emerged in these early, beerhall speeches. He demanded that Germany become a nation without class differences, in which manual labourer and intellectual each respected the contribution of the other.

a massive and intimidating publicity campaign launched after some successful Nazi fait accompli, followed by a (genuinely secret) ballot to confirm the Führer's actions. It was a logical extension of Hitler's method of dictatorship by consent.

Shed sweat—not blood

What business do the British have, poking their noses in?' exclaimed Hitler. 'They ought to be looking after their Jews in Palestine!' He told Bürger the British were just playing for time to rearm. If Britain interfered when 'Green' began, then the Luftwaffe would deal with her.

Despite everything," she wrote to Erwin on September 4 from Wiener Neustadt, "we were all hoping to the very end that a second world war could be avoided—we all hoped that reason would prevail in Britain and France. . . . Now the Führer has left last night for the Polish front.

In private, he justified his stiffer attitude to Britain by the secret documents now found in Prague archives. 'One day we'll publish them to all the world, to prove Britain's dishonesty,' Bodenschatz told a French diplomat. 'All we're asking for is our right to live, and we're not going to let a country that owns three-fifths of the earth deny us this elementary right.