After three years I believe that I can regard the struggle for German equality as concluded to-day.  I believe, moreover, that thereby the first and foremost reason for our withdrawal from European collective collaboration has ceased to exist. We have no territorial demands to make in Europe.[107] (Document 14, post p. 237.)

Moreover, he did not shrink from giving specific assurances of Germany’s peaceful intentions toward his subsequent victims: 

There are Germans and Poles in Europe, and they ought to live together in agreement.  The Poles cannot think, of Europe without the Germans and the Germans cannot think of Europe without the Poles. (Oct. 24, 1933)

Germans and Poles must reconcile themselves as to the fact of each others’ existence. It has seemed to me necessary to demonstrate by an example that it is possible for two nations to talk over their differences without giving the task to a third or a fourth ...

The assertion that the German Reich plans to coerce the Austrian State is absurd and cannot be substantiated or proved ...  The assertion of the Austrian Government that from the side of the Reich an attack would be undertaken or planned I must emphatically reject ...  The German Reich is always ready to hold out a hand for a real understanding, with full respect for the free will of Austrian Germans ...  (Jan. 13, 1934)

The lie goes forth again that Germany to-morrow or the day after will fall upon Austria or Czecho-Slovakia.  I ask myself always:  Who can these elements be who will have no peace, who incite continually, who must so distrust, and want no understanding?  Who are they?  I know they are not the millions who, if these inciters had their way, would have to take up arms. (May 1, 1936)

Germany and Poland are two nations, and these nations will live, and neither of them will be able to do away with the other.  I recognized all of this, and we all must recognize that a people of 33,000,000 will always strive for an outlet to the sea ... We have assured all our immediate neighbors of the integrity of their territory as far as Germany is concerned.  That is no hollow phrase; it is our sacred will ...  (Sept. 26, 1938)[108] (Document 14, post pp. 233, 234, 238, 240-241.)

Yugoslavia is a State that has increasingly attracted the attention of our people since the war.  The high regard that the German soldiers then felt for this brave people has since been deepened and developed into genuine friendship.  Our economic relations with this country are undergoing constant development and expansion, just as is the case with the friendly countries of Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania, Turkey, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic States. (Jan. 30, 1939)[109]

In Hitler’s Reichstag speech of April 28, 1939, in which he replied to President Roosevelt’s telegraphic message inviting him and Mussolini to pledge themselves not to attack 31 countries mentioned by name, he stated: