Quote #42106
This war no longer bears the characteristics of former inter-European conflicts. It is one of those elemental conflicts which usher in a new millennium and which shake the world once in a thousand years.
Adolf Hitler
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Interpretation
The statement casts war not as a limited contest between states but as a quasi-mythic, world-historical rupture—an “elemental conflict” that supposedly resets history and inaugurates a “new millennium.” This is characteristic of Hitler’s apocalyptic, providential rhetoric: it elevates political violence into destiny, frames compromise as betrayal of a larger historical mission, and encourages total mobilization by implying that ordinary moral and diplomatic restraints no longer apply. The language also functions propagandistically, presenting the conflict as inevitable and transformative, thereby legitimizing extreme measures and demanding unconditional commitment from followers by promising epochal renewal through destruction.


