Hitler was elated. General Jodl […] noted that Hitler 'Talks in words of appreciation of the German Army and its leadership. Busies himself with the peace treaty which shall express the theme, return of territory robbed over the last four hundred years from the German people …' Hitler would 'repay' the French for the peace terms imposed upon Germany in 1918 by conducting his own peace negotiations at the same spot in the forest of Compiegne. As for the British, 'The British can have their peace as soon as they return our colonies to us.'
From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, pp. 69, 70.
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