Word: hitleritis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler Visit No. 2 (later the same day): ". . . He was quite calm the second time and never raised his voice once. . . . He was, he said, 50 years old: he preferred war now to when he would be 55 or 60. I told him it was absurd to talk of extermination. Nations could not be exterminated and a peaceful, prosperous Germany was a British interest. His answer was that it was England who was fighting for the lesser races whereas he was fighting only for Germany: Germans would this time fight to the last man: it would have been different...
...Third Hitler visit (August 25): "The only signs of excitement on Herr Hitler's part were when he referred to Polish persecutions. . . . [He] said there had been an other case of castration. Among the points mentioned by Herr Hitler were: That the only winner of another European war would be Japan ; that he was by nature an artist, not a politician, and once the Polish question had been settled he would end his life as an artist not as a warmonger; he did not want to turn Germany into nothing but a military barracks and he would only...
Regarding the Polish guarantees Sir Nevile said : "Our word was our word, and we had never and would never break it. In the old days Germany's word had the same value and I quoted a passage from a German book (which Herr Hitler had read) about Field Marshal von Bliicher's exhortation to his troops when hurrying to support Wellington at Waterloo : 'Forward, my children ; I have given my word to my brother, Wellington, and you cannot wish me to break it.' Herr Hitler at once intervened to observe that things were different 125 years...
...Fifth Hitler interview (August 29) : "The interview this evening was of a stormy character and Hitler was far less reasonable than yesterday. A press announcement this evening that five more Germans had been killed in Poland and news of the Polish mobilization had obviously excited...
...Tirade of the whole series came on August 30 not from Hitler but from Ribbentrop. When Sir Nevile Henderson said that Great Britain was advising Poland to avoid provocative action, "von Ribbentrop replied that His Majesty's Government's advice had had cursed (verflucht) little effect. I mildly retorted that I was surprised to hear such language from th Minister for Foreign Affairs." Ribbentrop "read out in German aloud at top speed" a series of demands on Poland a then refused to let Sir Nevile see the text. "Herr von Ribbentrop's whole demeanor during our unpleasant...