SOURCE: The Goebbels Diaries: 1942-1943, Fireside Press, edited and translated by Louis P. Lochner, 1948, 566 p.

The following excerpts are from diary entries made by Goebbels during the war years of 1942 and 1943.

January 22, 1942

The Japanese Foreign Minister, Togo, delivered an extraordinarily firm, manly, and diplomatically clever speech in Parliament. He rejected the theory of race struggle, stretched out the hand of peace to the South American states, and above all handled the peoples in East Asia, who are oppressed by the English and Americans, with exceptional psychological skill. The Japanese are pursuing a tactical course fraught with extraordinary danger for both England and the United States. It is evident that the Japanese have had considerable political and diplomatic experience. Added to their great military powers this experience is calculated to achieve corresponding successes.…

January 23, 1942

Rommel's boldly conceived attack in North Africa is extremely gratifying. The English are again try...