IMPORTANT HISTORICAL QUOTES ABOUT WORLD WAR II. Baker, James Addison (1930- ), Secretary of State of the United States of America: "We painted Hitler as a monster, a devil. And that's why we could not move away from that portrayal after the war. We had mobilized the masses against the devil incarnate. And so we were forced to continue in this satanic scenario after the war. We could not possibly have explained to our people that the war had actually been only a preventative economic measure." (Quoted in the German news magazine Der Spiegel, issue 13/1992.) Churchill, Winston (1874-1965), British Prime Minister: "Germany is becoming too strong. We must crush her." To American General Robert E. Wood, in November 1936. Quoted in: Peter H. Nicoll, Englands Krieg gegen Deutschland, p. 82. Churchill, Winston: "Germany's unforgivable crime before the second world war was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world's trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity to profit." Churchill to Lord Robert Boothby, as quoted in: Sidney Rogerson, Propaganda in the Next War (Foreword to the second edition 2001), originally published in 1938. Churchill, Winston: "You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest." Quoted in: Emrys Hughes, Winston Churchill - His Career in War and Peace, p. 145. Fuller, John Frederick Charles ("J.F.C.") (1878-1966), British General and historian: "What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear." As quoted in: Joachim Nolywaika, Die Sieger im Schatten ihrer Schuld, p. 35. Lewis, Wyndham, English novelist, painter and critic: "What Herr Hitler is required to do is to merge Germany into the league of monopolist states. The peace-loving nations are more heavily armed than you are, Herr Hitler, and have unlimited resources at their disposal, and they will unquestionably make war on you if you do not submit to their will and if you persist in going on with this Sovereign State stuff." As quoted in: Robert O'Driscoll, The New World Order and the Throne of the anti-Christ, p. 231. "Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war. And we're only really beginning with it now! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing. Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete. It will never be final. Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again - those indestructible weeds of historical truth." - Delmer, Sefton (1904-1979), former British Chief of `Black propaganda': (Said after the German surrender, in 1945, in a conversation with the German professor of international law, Dr. Friedrich Grimm.)