On 6th May 1942, Hitler said: “Lord Rothermere [Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, pre-war owner of the Daily Mail], who at the time had just published two articles in support of the Mosley movement, himself described to me at the Berghof how the Jews went to work, and how it was quite impossible at short notice to take any effective counter-measures. It has been from the beginning one of my most potent sources of strength that I made all the newspapers of the NSDAP, unlike all the other newspapers of similar importance, completely independent of the Jewish advertising agencies and thus impervious to economic pressure of this nature.”
On 31 August 1942, he added: “To counteract Rothermere, the Jews cut off his complete revenue from advertising, and it was Rothermere himself who told me the story of how he was compelled to toe the line. Any and every nation which fails to exterminate the Jews in its midst will sooner or later finish by being itself devoured by them.’
On September 1942, Hitler said: “The first time the Princess XXX (Princess Stephanie, a well-connected aristocrat who acted as a go-between) visited me, she brought a letter from Rothermere. I asked Neurath if he considered it advisable for me to receive her. His reply was that, if we could get Rothermere on our side, it would be a terrific accomplishment; and that, at all costs, I must hear what she had to say. When the scarecrow appeared, I muttered ‘For God and Fatherland’ and braced myself to receive her.”