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My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.