Adolf Hitler

“ The French people must, however, bear in mind that by the attitude of their government in 1939 the German people were thrown into a grievous war which threw hundreds of thousands of families into peril and grief. ”

“ The German government no less than its soldiers has every wish within bounds of what is possible not only to protect the frontiers of France jointly with the French Army but also before all to assist in preserving in the future the African possessions of European nations against acts of brigandage. ”

“ Numerous Frenchmen will, on the other hand, show an understandable desire to be delivered from occupation, but they should all know that the German soldier, too, would prefer to live and work peacefully in his own country by the side of his wife and his children in his paternal home. ”