I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war – never mind whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterward whether he told the truth or not. In starting and waging a war it is not right that matters, but victory.– Adolf Hitler, secret military conference, August 22, 1939.
Quoted in William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, pp. 530, 593.
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