It's always the best and the bravest who sacrifice their lives

"I want peace - and I will do everything I can to make peace. It's not too late yet. In doing so, I will go to the limits of what is possible, as far as the sacrifices and dignity of the German nation permits it. I know better things than war! But if I think of the loss of German blood - it's always the best and the bravest who sacrifice their lives, whose job it would be to embody the nation. I don't need to make my name known through war like Churchill. I want to make a name for myself as a folder of the German people, I want to secure it's unity and living space, enforce National Socialism and shape the environment. "

(Adolf Hitler in a conversation with his architect Prof. Hermann Giesler, June 1940)

Source: Hermann Giesler's book

"Ein anderer Hitler", page 395