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war, even though this has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has
no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour.
Germany does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding peace." - Rudolf Hess
"I owe it to me position not to admit any doubt as to the possibility of maintaining peace. The peoples
want peace. It must be possible for governments to maintain it. We believe that if the nations of the
world could agree to destroy all their gas and inflammatory and explosive bombs it would be a much
more useful achievement than using them to destroy each other." - Adolf Hitler
"National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognizes the simple fact that no war would
be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe. The distress would probably be
made the greater thereby.... If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never
have wished for war." - Adolf Hitler
"The Fuhrer is one of the soldiers who fought in the trenches. I am one also. Nearly all the Fuhrer's
collaborators are men who fought in the most terrible war of all time. We know what war is, and for
that reason we are lovers of peace." - Rudolf Hess
"The world which we are not harming in any way, and from which we only ask that it will allow us to
go about our business in peace, has been submerging us for months under a flood of untruths and
calumnies." - Adolf Hitler, 14th October 1933
"The German Government has the honest intention to do everything in its power to discover and
permanently set up such relations with the British people and State as will forever guard against a
renewal of the only conflict that has ever been between two peoples." - Adolf Hitler, May 21st 1935
"As far as concerns our two countries, there is no longer any point whatsoever in dispute between
Great Britain and Germany. This, I believe, became clear to everybody after the conclusion of the
German-English Naval Pact, on June 18th 1935, which marks the first step on the road to a practical
peace policy." - Adolf Hitler, June 18th 1935
Agreeing to limit German naval strength to just 35% of Royal Navy tonnage - in respect of her
Empire commitment - and 15% below that of France, he said: "There has only been one struggle
between these two nations, and the German Government has the straight-forward intention to try and
form, and maintain, a relationship with the British people and State which will for all time prevent a
repetition of this."
"The British Heir Apparent, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, recently uttered a word which
has called forth a warm re-echo in our country. He said: 'No one is more fitted to stretch out the hand
of friendship to Germany than we, the English ex-servicemen who fought them - and have forgotten
all that.'
"I believe that I cannot better supplement this thought of our English comrades than by saying: We
gladly grasp your hand in friendship."
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