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better position than anyone else to know what the real feeling of the German people was, since 
 
every district leader and every local leader under his jurisdiction was in turn in touch with the unit 
 
leaders, who were in hourly contact with the German masses, and that he could assure me that 
 
never before in the history of the Nazi Party had the German people themselves been more 
 
completely identified with their Fuehrer than at the present moment.
 
          There is nothing to be gained from any detailed account of this conversation, which lasted 
 
about one hour.  Hess was quite as vehement as Ribbentrop, and in his presentation of German 
 
objectives infinitely less temperate than Hitler himself. He closed the door completely to the 
 
possibility of any negotiated peace and stated flatly that in his judgment, as head of the Nazi 
 
Party, there was only one possibility for Germany to achieve a lasting peace, and that was through 
 
a German military victory.
 
          It was so obvious that Hess was merely repeating what he had been told to say to me, and 
 
that he had neither himself reasoned about the problems at all nor thought anything out for 
 
himself, that I made no attempt to set forth any views of my own. At the conclusion of our 
 
interview I merely stated that I regretted to learn his opinion, that there now existed no hope of a 
 
lasting peace save through the force of arms.