Hitler's Table Talk

BRITISH STATESMEN 657
the marvellous bridges which span the Danube. It is a wonderful
city, and one of immense wealth. Its background consisted of
Croatia, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina; all the plutocratic
magnates poured their wealth into Budapest. After the 1848
revolution all the main thoroughfares of the city were rebuilt,
twice the width of those in Vienna.
I sent all the Berlin architects to Paris, to seek inspiration
there for the improvement of their own city. Three bridges are
always cheaper than fifty-five streets. I am only sorry I never
saw the new bridge at Cologne. It must have been marvellous!
298 22nd August 1942, evening
SPECIAL GUESTS : UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE BACKE AND
CAPTAIN TOPP
The Bolshevisation of Europe—Lloyd George, a great
Briton—Remorseless warfare.
Had he been given the time, Stalin would have made of
Russia a super-industrialised monster, completely contrary to
the interests of the masses, but justified by demagogic pedantry
and designed to raise the standard of life for his own particular
partisans. His final objective would have been the absorbing
of the whole of Europe into the Bolshevik ring. He is a beast,
but he's a beast on the grand scale. He made use of the Jews to
eliminate the intelligentsia of the Ukraine, and then exported
the Jews by trainloads to Siberia. I think it quite possible that
he will go off to China, when he sees no other way of escape
open to him.
The Briton who made the deepest impression on me was
Lloyd George. Eden speaks a repulsive, affected type of
English, but Lloyd George was a pure orator, and a man of
tremendous breadth of vision. What he has written on the
Treaty of Versailles will endure for ever. He was the first man
to declare that this Treaty would lead inevitably to another
war. The idea that a people like the German people can be
destroyed is madness, he said. Britain, he added, had no
alternative but to live on terms of friendship with Germany.
That events have taken a different course is the fault of the
Centrum (the Catholic Party). The Social Democrats were