Picker, Tischgesprache, entry for 22nd July 1942. Hitler drew the same parallel in a speech to the party leaders in Berlin; see The Goebbels Diaries, entry for 8th May 1943; also Keitel Memoirs. See further Hitler's speech to the German press on 10th November 1938, which constitutes unique evidence for the overestimation of propaganda methods (reprinted in VJHfZ, 1958, No. 2).