Hitler's Table Talk

14 RUMANIA. BRITISH-US RIVALRIES
It's marvellous to see how our Gauleiters are everywhere in
the breach.
I cannot tell you how greatly I suffered, during the Great
War, from the weaknesses of our command. In a military sense
we were not at all clever, and in a political sense we were so
clumsy that I had a constant longing to intervene. If I'd been
Reich Chancellor at the period, in three months' time I'd have
cut the throat of all obstruction, and I'd have reasserted our
power.
If I were twenty to twenty-five years younger, I'd be in the
front line. I passionately loved soldiering.
8 Friday, 25th July 1941, midday
Rumania must become an agricultural country.
Rumania would do well to give up, as far as possible, the idea
of having her own industry. She would direct the wealth of her
soil, and especially her wheat, towards the German market.
She would receive from us, in exchange, the manufactured
goods she needs. Bessarabia is a real granary. Thus the
Rumanian proletariat, which is contaminated by Bolshevism,
would disappear, and the country would never lack anything.
I must own that King Carol has worked in that direction.
9 Friday, 25th July 1941, evening
Anglo-American rivalries.
England and America will one day have a war with one
another, which will be waged with the greatest hatred imaginable.
One of the two countries will have to disappear.
10 Saturday, 26th July 1941, night
Monarchy is doomed.
The people needs a point upon which everybody's thoughts
converge, an idol. A people that possesses a sovereign of the
stature of Frederick the Great can think itself happy; but if