“ I am no new advocate of an Anglo-German understanding. In Germany I have made
between four and five thousand speeches to small, large, and mammoth audiences, yet there is
no single speech of mine, nor any line that I have written, in which I have expressed anything
contrary to this conception, or against an Anglo-German understanding.
“ So far as I am concerned, the world may reproach me with what it will; one reproach,
however, it can never make-that I have vacillated in my views or been unfaithful in my work.
Had an unknown man with such defects set himself to win a nation in fifteen years, he could
never have succeeded. This perhaps is the basis of what may, to many, seem the exaggerated
faith inspired by my personality. I believe that my consistent mental attitude, my invariable
principles, and my unshakable resolution will in the end succeed in enabling me to play a
great and historical part towards the re-establishment of sound and permanent relations
between the two great Germanic nations.
“ Such an agreement between England and Germany would represent the weighty
influence for peace and common sense of 120,000,000 of the most valuable people in the
world. The historically unique colonial aptitude and the naval power of Britain would be
combined with that of one of the first military nations of the world. If this under- standing
could be still further enlarged by the adhesion of the American nation, it would be absolutely
impossible to see who in the world could disturb a combination for peace which would never,
of set purpose or intent, neglect the interests of the white peoples.

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Adolf Hitler.