"Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers – already, you see, the world had fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing was Christianity! – then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies heroism and which opens the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so." - adolf hitler, lamenting the victory of the french over the muslims in 732 that prevented a muslim conquest of western europe (and largely repeating the views of edward gibbon about the collapse of the roman empire, the first of hitler's three reichs)