Hitler's Table Talk

WORLD ECONOMICS 257
On the day when the English set free their nine thousand
Fascists, these men will tear the guts out of the plutocrats, and
the problem will be solved. In my view, when there are nine
thousand men in a country who are capable of facing prison
from loyalty to an idea, this idea remains a living one. And as
long as a man is left to carry the flag, nothing is lost. Faith
moves mountains.
In that respect, I see things with the coldest objectivity. If
the German people lost its faith, if the German people were no
longer inclined to give itself body and soul in order to survive—
then the German people would have nothing to do but disappear
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128 27th January 1942, evening
Capitalist economy and prosperity—Sabotage of synthetic
petrol in 1933—Deterding backs Schacht—The British
have ruined the solidarity of the white races—History
will justify Lloyd George—The Jew must disappear from
Europe.
America should be living in abundance. But rationalisation
is the beginning of an unspeakable poverty. The counterpart
of this poverty is the insolent opulence of the privileged
caste. Obviously the Jew thinks as a capitalist, and not as an
economist.
I believe the United States have promised Brazil to buy up
its crop of coffee after the war. The Brazilians must have been
lured in one way or another. States like Brazil should understand
that such a policy will more and more drive Europe to
autarky.
Vogler made me the proposal, in 1933, to supply us with two
million tons of synthetic petrol in the space of three years, on
condition that we should undertake to buy his entire output, at a
price fixed beforehand, for a period of ten years. His offer
covered our entire needs for the year 1934. The Ministry of
Economics torpedoed the scheme. It was arranged in advance
that the LG. Farben would finance the construction of the factories.
The scheme furthermore guaranteed employment for
hundreds of thousands of workers.
K