Claims Quote by Adolf Hitler

“We finally drove the Germans back and we entered the Alsace-Lorraine region, which is part French and part German.”

— Charles Brandt

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

— Jules Ferry

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace…

— Edward Grey

Let's put an end to this European civil war, the existence of which we don't want to admit, and stop constantly looking at whether…

— Emmanuel Macron

“The humiliation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensitive people; and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no greater burden…

— George S. Patton Jr

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

— Pierre Laval

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

— Ernst Rohm

I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her…

— Joseph Stalin

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany…

— Gustav Stresemann

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God,…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so…

— Edward Grey