In speeches as well as writing, he could express himself diplomatically, but as evinced below, his true knack was to demonise, inspire hatred and (ultimately) war and genocide. Here are 20 of Hitler’s most central quotes concerning World War Two, which bring out the essence of the Führer’s method and mission.

754 quotes from Adolf Hitler: 'If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!', 'Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.', and 'if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.'

This article on D-Day quotes features famous words from Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolph Hitler, Erwin Rommel, and other Axis and Allied generals and soldiers

During the Great War, “Gott mit uns” (“God is with us”) was the rallying cry of the German military. It reflected deeply-held beliefs by German leadership and the hopes of the German people.

The German War Quotes Showing 1-13 of 13 “If the German armies had disintegrated like Napoleon’s Grande Armée in the winter of 1941, and the Third Reich had sued for peace, most of the soldiers and civilians who were to die in the Second World War would have lived.”