Hitler's Table Talk

WEALTH AND COMMON SENSE 659
abandon any hope they had of starving us out. They have
always cherished the hope that they would not have much
difficulty, as in the first World War, of cutting us off from the
rest of the world. But now, after Norway, the Channel Islands,
and with their difficulties in the Far East, they have to sing a
different tune.
The war leader who takes no risks gains no prize.
In the years immediately following our assumption of power
many people were of the opinion that inflation was inevitable.
The only ones who appreciated our policy were the workmen.
For years I had been telling them : Your wages can only rise in
proportion to the increase in your productivity.
The less money a man has, the more common-sense he shows.
The richest people are the least reasonable, and some are so
stupid that they become misers! This tendency is generally
corrected by the sons, who fling the money away with both
hands. For this reason we must see to it that the gaming-tables
are not done away with; casinos are marvellous institutions,
and we must say to everyone with too much money : Gome on,
you people, come and gamble!
The whole of life is one perpetual hazard, and birth is the
greatest hazard of them all. Every parent knows that his son
is the most intelligent baby born, even after the first week : one
tells that, of course, from the child's weight.
300 26th August 1942, evening
SPECIAL GUEST : GRAND ADMIRAL RAEDER
The fidgety bureaucrats-—Italy saps our moral courage—
Switzerland a pimple on the face of Europe—The Swedish
vermin—Remedies against high blood pressure—Industrialisation
of Russia—British strategy—The Peace of Westphalia
and the modern Germany—Pride without power—
The Dieppe raid—Lines of communication in Russia.
Bureaucrats are often prone to take away all the joys of life
from the people. When the soldiers bring something home with
them from the Eastern front, it means an additional two
hundred and fifty or three hundred thousand parcels—a very
welcome addition to the home. It is absurd to say they should