North Africa...
What might the enemy do next? They may land
in Sardinia, that won’t cause any problems; possibly
Sicily. The main danger is to Portugal, intelligence on
this is hardening.... In charge of Spain is a weakling
[Franco] who has the worst possible counsel: coward-
ice!... And add to this the very real danger that the
enemy may turn against Brittany and Normandy.
There is also the possibility that he may undertake an
invasion of Norway, not on a large scale but in regi-
mental strength, possibly using ski troops; American
troops are standing by in Scotland and they might be
airlifted to Norway.
Extraordinary armaments potential of the Ameri-
cans, danger of poison-gas warfare: The Americans
are in favor, because of course nothing can happen in
their own country; the British are probably set against
it but won’t be able to get their way with the United
States, which is interested only in swallowing the Brit-
ish Empire and tossing Europe to the Bolsheviks. Brit-
ain is playing a game nobody can understand any
longer. She’s bound to go under the game she’s
playing even if she is on the victorious side.
We have these allies: one who fights magnificently
[Japan], fights like a German, but is far away... A
second ally [Italy] who is absolutely useless; not one of
its divisions is worth anything at all; an entire army
[the Italian Eighth Army] that ran away and was go-
ing to be sent into the partisan area has now reported
that it does not feel a match for the bandits. They
weren’t even able to pacify the Balkans, although the
enemy there only has muskets and not one piece of
artillery.
All this shows how grim the situation is. To un-
derline our ultimate war aim I can only repeat what
the Führer said in his speech. At the end of this war
there will only be the survivors and the dead: It is
madness to believe there can be a salvation if Bolshe-