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!

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.

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

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

I don’t think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.

The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews.

Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don’t know the figures. I’m not an expert on the Holocaust.

the historical truth and that I alone have been getting it right.

because of my ability to stand up to the experts ... to take them all on single-handed.