Hitler's Table Talk

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VALUE OF NEWS FILMS
31 Night of gth-ioth October 1941
Germany and the Asiatic hordes—Balance of power—A
Pyrrhic victory.
We Germans are alone responsible that the tide of Huns,
Avars and Magyars was halted in Central Europe.
We were already a great empire when the English were only
beginning to build up their maritime power.
If we hadn't been such fools as to tear each other to pieces
in order to find out whether we should consume God in the
forms of bread and wine, or of bread only, England would
never have been able to have her say concerning the balance of
power on the Continent.
England is never a danger except when she can oppose a
power who threatens her supremacy with other powers whom
she induces to play her game.
For England, the first World War was a Pyrrhic victory.
To maintain their empire, they need a strong continental
power at their side. Only Germany can be this power.
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gth-ioth October 1941
News-reels are valuable documents for the future.
For the sake of the future, it's important to preserve the
news-films of the war. They will be documents of incalculable
value. New copies of these films will have to be constantly
printed, and it would even be best to print them on strips of
metal, so that they won't disappear.
I succeeded in getting my hands on some rare shots of the
first World War. (They'd been collected for destruction.) But
they were confiscated by the Bavarian State, at the same time
as the Party's other possessions were confiscated. I could never
find out what became of them, and they must be regarded as
lost.
I hope that in future news-films will be made by our very
best film experts. One can get extraordinary results in that
field. They can confine themselves to twenty-minute one-