'The Führer is indescribably happy about the pictures of Helga on the Obersalzberg, which are also very sweet and adorable. Says that if Helga was 20 years older and he was 20 years younger, then that would be the woman for him.'

— Joseph Goebbels

Eintrag vom 2. Februar 1937

Source: Bundesarchiv, Abt. Koblenz N 1118/8

Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels Im Auftrag des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte und mit Unterstützung des Staatlichen Archivdienstes Rußlands Herausgegeben von Elke Fröhlich

"The Führer is a man completely oriented towards antiquity. He hates Christianity because it has crippled all noble humanity. According to Schopenhauer, Christianity and syphilis have made mankind unhappy and unfree. What a difference between a benevolent and wise smiling Zeus and a painfully distorted crucified Christ. The view of God itself is also much more noble and human among the ancient peoples than in Christianity. What a difference between a gloomy cathedral and a bright, free ancient temple. He describes life in ancient Rome: clarity, grandeur, monumentality. The greatest republic in history. We would probably not be disappointed, he says, if we were suddenly transported to this ancient eternal city."

— Joseph Goebbels, Diary entry on 8 April 1941

Source: [Bundesarchiv Koblenz, N 1118/13 p.235-40]

Full transcript of the diary entries:

Source: Teil I Aufzeichnungen 1923-1941 Band 9 Dezember 1940 Juli 1941 Bearbeitet von Elke Fröhlich pp. 233-235

'Christianity has so entangled our entire public life that it can only be gradually removed with the greatest difficulty. I don't want to do anything about it now, even during the war; these are all problems that we will have to deal with after the war.'

Goebbels Tagebücher Eintrag vom 21.11.41

Source: N 1118/36 page 99

“The Jews are now being pushed out of the General Government, beginning near Lublin, to the East. A pretty barbaric procedure is being applied here, and it is not to be described in any more detail, and not much is left of the Jews themselves. In general one may conclude that 60% of them must be liquidated, while only 40% can be put to work. The former Gauleiter of Vienna [Globocnik], who is carrying out this action, is doing it pretty prudently and with a procedure that doesn't work too conspicuously. The Jews are being punished barbarically, to be sure, but they have fully deserved it. The prophesy that the Führer issued to them on the way, for the eventuality that they started a new world war, is beginning to realise itself in the most terrible manner. One must not allow any sentimentalities to rule in these matters. If we did not defend ourselves against them, the Jews would annihilate us. It is a struggle for life and death between the Aryan race and the Jewish bacillus. No other government and no other regime could muster the strength for a general solution of the question. Here too, the Führer is the persistent pioneer and spokesman of a radical solution, which is demanded by the way things are and thus appears to be unavoidable. Thank God, during the war we now have a whole series of possibilities which were barred to us in peacetime. We must exploit them. The ghettos which are becoming available in the General Government are now being filled with the Jews who are being pushed out of the Reich, and after a certain time the process is then to renew itself here. Jewry has nothing to laugh about, and the fact that its representatives in England and America are organizing and propagating war against Germany today is something that its representatives in Europe are paying very dearly for, and this must be seen as justified.”

—Joseph Goebbels

Eintrag vom 27. März 1942

Source: [NARA, RG 242, T-84, Roll 261
US National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC
(NARA)]