In view of your decision to remain in the fortress of Berlin, do you agree that I take over at once the total leadership of the reich, with full freedom of action at home and abroad as your deputy, in accordance with your decree of June 29, 1941?
To reduce the armament of others while keeping one’s own intact, to reduce the obsolete while developing the state-of-the-art, or even to sacrifice the security of others for one’s own security and to demand other countries to scrupulously abide by treaties while giving oneself the freedom of action by placing domestic laws above international law, all these are acts of double standards.