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'''[[:af:|Adolf Hitler|Adolf Hitler]]''' (adɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was 'n Duitse politikus en leier van die Naziparty (''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei''; NSDAP), Duitse kansellier van 1933 tot 1945, en Führer ("Leier") van Naziduitsland van 1934 tot 1945. Die Tweede Wêreldoorlog het tydens sy diktatorskap, en spesifiek met sy inval in Pole in September 1939 ontstaan, en hy was die dryfveer agter die Menseslagting.
== Aanhalings==
=== 1920s ===
* Sosialisme as die finale pligsbeginsel, die etiese werksbeginsel, nié bloot vir jouself, maar ook vir jou medemens se onthalwe, en bo alles dié beginsel: Gemenebes voor eie gewin, 'n stryd teen alle parasitisme en veral teen gemaksugtige en onverdiende inkomste. En ons is bewus dat ons in hierdie stryd op niemand anders as ons eie mense kan staatmaak nie. Ons is oortuig dat sosialisme in die ware sin slegs in nasies en rasse wat Aries is haalbaar is, en daar hoop ons in die eerste plek vir ons eie mense en is oortuig dat sosialisme nie van nasionalisme geskei kan word nie.
** "Hoekom Ons Anti-Semite Is," toespraak van 15 Augustus 1920 in die Hofbräuhaus, München. Ook vertaal as "Why Are We Anti-Semites?" uit die ''Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte'', 16de Jaargang, 4de H. (Oktober 1968), pp. 390-420. Onder redaksie van Carolyn Yeager. [https://carolynyeager.net/why-we-are-antisemites-text-adolf-hitlers-1920-speech-hofbr%C3%A4uhaus]
* Die gemenebes voor eie voordeel. (''Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz'')
** “Die Nazi 25-punt Program,” Hitler se toespraak oor die party se program (24 Februarie 1920) in München, Duitsland. ''Nazi Ideology Before 1933: A Documentation'', Barbara Miller Lane, Leila J. Rupp, introduction and translation, Manchester University Press (1978) p. 43.
* Aangesien ons sosialiste is, moet ons noodwendig ook antisemite wees want ons wil stry teen presies die teenoorgestelde: materialisme en mammonisme...''' Hoe kan jy as sosialis nie 'n antisemiet wees nie!'''
** "Hoekom Ons Anti-Semite Is," toespraak van 15 Augustus 1920 in die Hofbräuhaus, München. "Why Are We Anti-Semites?", vertaal uit die ''Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte'', 16de Jaargang, 4de H. (Oktober 1968), pp. 390-420. Onder redaksie van Carolyn Yeager. [https://carolynyeager.net/why-we-are-antisemites-text-adolf-hitlers-1920-speech-hofbr%C3%A4uhaus]
* Want dit skyn onskeibaar van die sosiale idee te wees en '''ons glo nie dat daar ooit 'n staat met blywende interne welstand kan bestaan as dit nie op interne sosiale geregtigheid gebou is nie''', en derhalwe het ons met hierdie begrip bande gesmee.
** "Hoekom Ons Anti-Semite Is," toespraak van 15 Augustus 1920 in die Hofbräuhaus, München. "Why Are We Anti-Semites?", vertaal uit die ''Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte'', 16de Jaargang, 4de H. (Oktober 1968), pp. 390-420. Onder redaksie van Carolyn Yeager. [https://carolynyeager.net/why-we-are-antisemites-text-adolf-hitlers-1920-speech-hofbr%C3%A4uhaus]
* En daar bestaan nie iets soos klasse nie: daar kán nie. Klas beteken kaste en kaste beteken ras.
** Hitler se toespraak in München op 12 April 1922, [https://books.google.com/books?id=inJuDgAAQBAJ&pg=PP32]
*'''Sodra ek daadwerklike mag besit, sal my eerste en vernaamste taak die uitwissing van die Jode wees'''. Sodra ek die mag daartoe het, sal ek galge in rye oprig — by die Marienplein in München byvoorbeeld — soveel as die verkeer toelaat. Dan sal die Jode sonder uitsondering gehang word, en hulle sal bly hang totdat hulle stink; hulle sal daar hang solank die beginsels van higiëne dit toelaat. Sodra hulle losgemaak is, sal die volgende groep opgehang word, en so met die ry af, totdat die laaste Jood in München uitgewis is. Ander stede sal die voorbeeld volg, op presies dieselde wyse, '''totdat Duitsland in geheel van die Jode gereinig is'''.
**Soos in 1922 aan Josef Heil gestel, aangehaal in [https://books.google.com/books?id=qPV_rGdhYpkC&pg=PA17&dq=Once+I+really+am+in+power,+my+first+and+foremost+task+will+be+the+annihilation+of+the+Jews.+As+soon+as+I+have+the+power+to+do+so,&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8uJGhnJbXAhUJbiYKHZXiDi4Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=Once%20I%20really%20am%20in%20power%2C%20my%20first%20and%20foremost%20task%20will%20be%20the%20annihilation%20of%20the%20Jews.%20As%20soon%20as%20I%20have%20the%20power%20to%20do%20so%2C&f=false Gerald Fleming, ''Hitler and the Final Solution'' pg. 17]
* As die Nasionaalsosialistiese Beweging sou nalaat om die fundamentele belang van hierdie grondbeginsel [ras] te begryp, as dit bloot die eksterne voorkoms van die hudige Staat sou vernis en die meerderheidsbeginsel sou aanhang, sal dit niks meer bereik as om Marxisme op hul eie terme aan te vat nie.
** ''Mein Kampf'', Band 2, Hoofstuk IV, “Persoonlikheid en Ideaal van die Volkstaat,” in Engels vertaal deur Marco Roberto, MVR, 2015, p. 33, eerste publikasie 1926
* In ons beweging het twee ekstreme mekaar gevind: die Kommuniste van die linksgesindes, en die offisiere en studente van die regsgesindes. Hierdie twee was nog altyd die mees aktiewe elemente.
** Soos aangehaal in ''Der Fuehrer Hitler’s Rise to Power'', Konrad Heiden, Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1969, p. 147, eerste publikasie in 1944. Ook aangehaal in ''Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism'', Hannah Arendt, A Harvest Book, 1985, voetnota op p. 7
====''Tweede boek'' (1928)====
:<small>[https://archive.org/details/ZweitesBuch-AdolfHitlersSecretBook Aanlyn by die internetargief]</small>
* Die Nasionaalsosialistiese Beweging, aan die teenkant, sal altyd sy buitelandse beleid laat lei deur die noodsaaklikheid vir sekurering van die ruimte wat vir die lewe van ons volk nodig is. Dit ken geen germanisering of teutonisering soos in die geval van die nasionale bourgeoisie nie, maar slegs die uitbreiding van sy eie volk. Dit sal nooit in die onderworpe, sogenaamd gegermaniseerde Tjeggiërs of Pole 'n nasionale, laat staan nog 'n volkiese, aanwins sien nie, maar slegs die degenerasie van die volksras.
* Die Volkstaat daarenteen, moet onder geen omstandighede Pole annekseer met die bedoeling om eendag Duitsers van hulle te maak nie. In teendeel moet dit die oortuiging laat posvat om hierdie volksvreemde raselemente af te seël, sodat die bloed van sy eie volk nie opnuut gekorrupteer word nie, óf dit moet hulle sonder uitstel verwyder en die ontvolkte gebied oordra aan sy eie Nasionale Kamerade.
* Die Jodedom is 'n volk waarvan die raskern nie 'n volkome eenvormigheid daar stel nie. Nietemin beskik dit as volk oor spesifieke intrinsieke eienskappe wat dit onderskei van alle ander volke wat die wêreld bewoon. Jodedom is nie 'n religieuse gemeenskap nie, maar hul onderlinge religieuse band stel in werklikheid die dag tot dag regeringstelsel van hul Joodse volk daar. Die Jode het nog nooit oor 'n territoriaal afgebakende staat van sy eie beskik soos dié van die Ariese state nie. Nietemin vorm hierdie religieuse gemeenskap 'n werklike staat, aangesien dit die behoud, die aanwas en die toekoms van die Joodse volk waarborg. Voorgenoemde is naamlik die taak van die staat alleen. Dat die Joodse staat aan geen territoriale beperking onderworpe is, soos die geval by Ariese state is nie, staan verbonde met die karakter van die Joodse volk, wat ontbreek aan produktiewe kragte vir die konstruksie en preservering van sy eie territoriale staat.
* Weens die gebrek aan produktiewe kapasiteite van sy eie, kan die Joodse volk nie die vestiging van 'n staat, in die territoriale sin, uitvoer nie, maar vir die onderhoud van sy eie bestaan is dit afhanklik van die werk en kreatiewe aktiwiteite van ander nasies. Die voortbestaan van die Jood bestaan dan daaruit om homself parasities te vestig binne die lewens van ander volke. Die uiteindelike doelwit van die Joodse stryd om bestaan is die verslawing van produktiewe volke. Ten einde hierdie doelwit te verwesentlik, wat altoos die behoud van die Jodedom in sy bestaanstryd verseker het, maak die Jood gebruik van alle wapens in ooreenstemming met die hele samestelling van sy karakter. Sodoende sal hy in die binnelandse politiek van die indiwiduele nasies eerstens veg vir gelyke regte en later vir spesiale regte. Die karaktertrekke van sluheid, intelligensie, skerpsinnigheid, ondeugsaamheid, veinsery, endiesmeer, gewortel in sy volksaard, dien as sy wapens tot hierdie doeleinde. Hulle is netsoveel taktieke in sy oorlewingstryd as taktieke van ander volke in strydvoering. In buitelandse beleid, poog hy om nasies in 'n toestand van onrus te bring, om hul aandag af te lei van hul ware belange, en om hulle in wedersydse oorloë te dompel, en om sodoende gaandeweg 'n posisie van meesterskap oor hulle te verkry met die aanwending van geldmag en propaganda. Sy einddoelwit is denasionalisasie, die promiskue verbastering van ander volke, die afskaling van die rasbydrae van die hoogste volke, sowel as die oorheersing van hierdie rasmengelmoes deur die uitroeiing van die volksintelligentsia die vervanging daarvan deur lede van sy eie volk.
* Politiek is die maak van geskiedenis.
* Zu einer solchen weisen Maßnahme waren einst '''Spart[j]aken''' [sie] fähig, aber nicht unser heutiges, verlogen sentimentales, bürgerlich-patriotisches Zeug. Die Herrschaft der 6000 '''Spartaner''' über 3 1/2 Hunderttausend Heloten war nur denkbar infolge des rassischen Hochwertes der Spartaner. Dieser aber war das Ergebnis einer planmäßigen Rasseerhaltung, so daß wir im spartanischen Staat den ersten völkischen zu sehen haben. Die Aussetzung '''kranker, schwächlicher, mißgestalteter Kinder''', d. h. also deren Vernichtung, war menschenwürdiger und in Wirklichkeit tausendmal humaner als der erbärmliche Irrsinn unserer heutigen Zeit, die krankhaftesten Subjekte zu erhalten, und zwar um jeden Preis zu erhalten, und hunderttausend gesunden Kindern infolge der Geburtenbeschränkung oder durch Abtreibungsmittel das Leben zu nehmen, in der Folgezeit aber ein Geschlecht von mit Krankheiten '''belasteten Degeneraten heranzuzüchten'''. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bBgfAAAAMAAJ&dq=Zu+einer+solchen+weisen+Ma%C3%9Fnahme+waren+einst&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22f%C3%A4hig%2C+aber+nicht+unser+heutiges%2C+verlogen+sentimentales%22+]
*Eens op 'n tyd was die Spartane in staat tot so 'n wyse maatreël, maar nié ons hedendaagse leuenagtig-sentimentele en burgerlik-patriotiese gespuis nie. Die heerskappy van sesduisend Spartane oor driehonderd en vyftig duisend Helote was slegs denkbaar ingevolge die hoë raswaarde van die Spartane. En dit was die resultaat van sistemiese raspreservering, sodat Sparta beskou moet word as die eerste Volkstaat. Die blootstelling van siek, swak en wanskape kinders, kortom hul uitwissing, was meer opreg en inderwaarheid 'n duisend maal meer menslik as die verderflike absurditeit van ons dag waar behoud van die mees patologiese subjekte, inderdaad teen enige prys, nagestreef word, om nogtans die lewe te neem van 'n honderd duisend welskape kinders deur die toedoen van geboortebeperking en aborsies, ten einde 'n gebreklike ras te genereer wat oorlaai is met siektes.
** In Engels vertaal in ''Hitler's Secret Book'' (1961) Grove Press uitgawe, pp. 8-9 en 17-18.
<!--=== 1930s ===
*'''Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true Socialism is not.'''
**Adolf Hitler, Sunday Express, 28 September 1930; cited. in The Rise of Fascism by F.L. Carsten, p. 137
* What right do these people have to demand a share of property or even in administration?... The employer who accepts the responsibility for production also gives the workpeople their means of livelihood. Our greatest industrialists are not concerned with the acquisition of wealth or with good living, but, above all else, with responsibility and power. '''They have worked their way to the top by their own abilities, and this proof of their capacity – a capacity only displayed by a higher race – gives them the right to lead.'''
** Adolf Hitler to Max Amann, May 1930 quotes in [https://books.google.com/books?id=CkdZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=have+worked+their+way+to+the+top+by+their+own+abilities,+and+this+proof+of+their+capacity+%E2%80%93+a+capacity+only+displayed+by+a+higher+race+%E2%80%93+gives+them+the+right+to&source=bl&ots=RlP4mOW504&sig=lyFV37iP2WvQC-6al732ME_lNlo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYi--M4aLVAhWLNT4KHS9xAW8Q6AEIKTAB#v=snippet&q=amann&f=false A History of National Socialism (Responding to Fascism Vol 2)]
* To put it quite clearly: we have an economic programme. Point No. 13 in that programme demands the nationalisation of all public companies, in other words socialisation, or what is known here as [[Right-wing socialism|socialism]]. … the basic principle of my Party’s economic programme should be made perfectly clear and that is the principle of authority… the good of the community takes priority over that of the individual. But the State should retain control; every owner should feel himself to be an agent of the State; it is his duty not to misuse his possessions to the detriment of the State or the interests of his fellow countrymen. That is the overriding point. The Third Reich will always retain the right to control property owners. If you say that the bourgeoisie is tearing its hair over the question of [[private property]], that does not affect me in the least. Does the bourgeoisie expect some consideration from me?… Today’s bourgeoisie is rotten to the core; it has no ideals any more; all it wants to do is earn money and so it does me what damage it can. The bourgeois press does me damage too and would like to consign me and my movement to the devil.
** Hitler's interview with {{w|Richard Breiting}}, 1931, published in Edouard Calic, ed., “First Interview with Hitler, 4 May 1931,” ''Secret Conversations with Hitler: The Two Newly-Discovered 1931 Interviews'', New York: John Day Co., 1971, pp. 31-33. Also published under the title ''{{w|Unmasked: Two Confidential Interviews with Hitler in 1931}}'', published by Chatto & Windus in 1971
* I will tolerate no opposition. We recognize only subordination – authority downwards and responsibility upwards. You just tell the German bourgeoisie that I shall be finished with them far quicker than I shall with marxism... When once the conservative forces in Germany realize that only I and my party can win the German proletariat over to the State and that no parliamentary games can be played with marxist parties, then Germany will be saved for all time, then we can found a German Peoples State.
** Hitler's interview with [[w:Richard Breiting|Richard Breiting]], 1931, published in Edouard Calic, ed., “First Interview with Hitler,4 May 1931,” ''Secret Conversations with Hitler: The Two Newly-Discovered 1931 Interviews'', New York: John Day Co., 1971, pp. 36-37. Also published under the title ''[[w:Unmasked: Two Confidential Interviews with Hitler in 1931 | Unmasked: Two Confidential Interviews with Hitler in 1931]]'' published by Chatto & Windus in 1971
* What matters is to emphasize the fundamental idea in my party's economic program clearly; the idea of authority. I want the authority; I want everyone to keep the property he has acquired for himself according to the principle: ''{{'}}Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.{{'}}'' But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.
** In 1931, as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=kp3p_sIk8h8C&pg=PA303 ''Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy''] (1990), by Avraham Barkai, pp. 26–27
* Over the last forty years the German bourgeoisie has been a lamentable failure; it has not given the German people a single leader; it will have to bow without gainsaying to the totality of my ideology… The bourgeoisie rules by intrigue, but it can have no foothold in my movement because we accept no Jews or Jewish accomplices into our Party.
** Hitler's interview with Richard Breiting, 1931, published in Edouard Calic, ed., “First Interview with Hitler, 4 May 1931,” ''Secret Conversations with Hitler: The Two Newly-Discovered 1931 Interviews'', New York: John Day Co., 1971, p. 22. Also published under the title ''Unmasked: Two Confidential Interviews with Hitler in 1931'', published by Chatto & Windus in 1971
*This whole edifice of civilization is in its foundations and in all its stones nothing else than the result of the creative capacity, the achievement, the intelligence, the industry, of individuals: in its greatest triumphs it represents the great crowning achievement of individual God-favored geniuses, in its average accomplishment the achievement of men of average capacity, and in its sum doubtless the result of the use of human labor-force in order to turn to account the creations of genius and of talent. So it is only natural that when the capable intelligences of a nation, which are always in a minority, are regarded only as of the same value as all the rest, then genius, capacity, the value of personality are slowly subjected to the majority and this process is then falsely named the rule of the people. For this is not rule of the people, but in reality the rule of stupidity, of mediocrity, of half-heartedness, of cowardice, of weakness, and of inadequacy
**Speech to the Industry Club (21 January 1932) as quoted in ''{{w|The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922 – August 1939}}'' (1994) by {{w|Norman Hepburn Baynes}}, {{w|Oxford University Press}}, p.783
*Thus it must be admitted that in the economic sphere, from the start, in all branches men are not of equal value or of equal importance. And once this is admitted it is madness to say: in the economic sphere there are undoubtedly differences in value, but that is not true in the political sphere. It is absurd to build up economic life on the conceptions of achievement, of the value of personality, and therefore in practice the authority of personality, but in the political sphere to deny the authority of personality and to thrust into this place the law of the greater number — democracy.
**Speech to the Industry Club (21 January 1932) as quoted in ''{{w|The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922 – August 1939}}'' (1994) by {{w|Norman Hepburn Baynes}}, {{w|Oxford University Press}}, p.787
* The struggle between the people and the hatred amongst them is being nurtured by very specific interested parties. It is a small, rootless, international clique that is turning the people against each other, that does not want them to have peace. It is the people who are at home both nowhere and everywhere, who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up, but who live in Berlin today, in Brussels tomorrow, Paris the day after that, and then again in Prague or Vienna or London, and who feel at home everywhere. [Man in audience shouts 'Jews!'] They are the only ones who can be addressed as international elements, because they conduct their business everywhere, but the people cannot follow them. The people are bounded to their soil, bounded to its fatherland, bounded to the possibilities of life that the state, the nation, offers.
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/hitler_audio.shtml A speech at the Siemens Dynamo Works in Berlin, (10 November 1933)]
*''Wenn deine Mutter alt geworden,<br>und älter du geworden bist,<br>wenn ihr, was früher leicht und mühlos,<br>nunmehr zur Last geworden ist,<br>wenn ihre lieben, treuen Augen,<br>nicht mehr wie einst ins Leben seh'n,<br>wenn ihre Füße, kraftgebrochen,<br>sie nicht mehr tragen woll'n mein Geh'n,<br>dann reich ihr deinen Arm zur Stütze,<br>geleite sie mit froher Lust,<br>die Stunde kommt, da du sie weinend<br>zum letzten Gang begleiten musst.<br>Und fragt sie dich, so gib ihr Antwort,<br>und fragt sie wieder, - sprich auch du,<br>und fragt sie nochmals, - steh' ihr Rede,<br>nicht ungestüm, in sanfter Ruh!<br>Und kann sie dich nicht recht verstehen,<br>erklär ihr alles frohbewegt,<br>die Stunde kommt, die bitt're Stunde,<br>da dich ihr Mund nach nichts mehr frägt.<br>''
**When your mother has grown old<br>and with her so have you,<br>When that which once came easy<br>has at last become a burden,<br>When her loving, true eyes<br>no longer see life as once they did<br>When her weary feet<br>no longer want to wear her as she stands,<br>then reach an arm to her shoulder,<br>escort her gently, with happiness and passion<br>The hour will come, when you, crying,<br>must take her on her final walk.<br>And if she asks you, then give her an answer<br>And if she asks you again, listen!<br>And if she asks you again, take in her words<br>not impetuously, but gently and in peace!<br>And if she cannot quite understand you,<br>explain all to her gladly<br>For the hour will come, the bitter hour<br>when her mouth will ask for nothing more.<br>
** Adolf Hitler, "Denk' es!" (Be Reminded!) 1923, first published in ''Sonntag-Morgenpost'' (14 May 1933).
* I have sympathy for [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Mr. Roosevelt]], because he marches straight toward his objectives over Congress, lobbies and bureaucracy." Hitler went on to note that he was the sole leader in Europe who expressed "understanding of the methods and motives of President Roosevelt.
** [http://www.fff.org/freedom/0795a.asp] ''New York Times'' 1934, as quoted from: ''Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography'' (1976) John Toland
* ''Es wird stets nur ein Teil eines Volkes aus wirklich aktiven Kämpfern bestehen, und von ihnen wird mehr gefordert, als von den Millionen der übrigen Volksgenossen. '''Für sie genügt nicht die blosse Ablegung des Bekenntnisses: «Ich glaube»; sondern der Schwur: «Ich kämpfe!»''
** It shall always be only a fraction of the people who stand out as truly active fighters, and more is expected from them than from the millions of their fellow countrymen. '''For them, the mere pledge of "I believe" is not enough, but rather the oath: "I fight!"'''
*** Speech from the Sixth Nazi Party Congress, Nuremberg; September 8th, 1934 [https://web.archive.org/web/20150605015000/http://campbellmgold.com/archive_esoteric/hitler_closing_speech_triumph_of_the_will.pdf].<br>Video footage of this quotation can be found in the film [[w:Triumph of the Will|Triumph of the Will]]
*What a man sacrifices in struggling for his Volk, a woman sacrifices in struggling to preserve this Volk in individual cases. What a man gives in heroic courage on the battlefield, woman gives in eternally patient devotion, in eternally patient suffering and endurance. Every child to which she gives birth is a battle which she wages in her Volk’s fateful question of to be or not to be.
**Speech from the Sixth Nazi Party Congress, Nuremberg; September 8th, 1934 qouted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=a9dVAAAAYAAJ&q=What+a+man+sacrifices+in+struggling+for+his+Volk,+a+woman+sacrifices+in+struggling+to+preserve+this+Volk+in+individual+cases&dq=What+a+man+sacrifices+in+struggling+for+his+Volk,+a+woman+sacrifices+in+struggling+to+preserve+this+Volk+in+individual+cases&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8id_w8-TWAhXIRSYKHSn5CV0Q6AEILDAB Hitler: speeches and proclamations, 1932-1945 - Volume 2 - Page 533]
*'''The Germany of today is a National Socialist State. The ideology that dominates us is in diametrical contradiction to that of Soviet Russia. National Socialism is a doctrine that has reference exclusively to the German people. Bolshevism lays stress on international mission. We National Socialists believe a man can, in the long run, be happy only among his own people. We are convinced the happiness and achievements of Europe are indissolubly tied up with the continuation of the system of independent and free national States. Bolshevism preaches the establishment of a world empire and recognizes only section of a central international.''' We National Socialists grant each people the right to its own inner life according to its needs and its own nature. Bolshevism, on the other hand, establishes doctrinal theories that are to be accepted by all peoples, regardless of their particular essence, their special nature, traditions, etc. National Socialism speaks up for the solution of social problems, issues and tensions in their own nation, with methods that are consistent with our common human, spiritual, cultural and economic beliefs, traditions and conditions. Bolshevism preaches the international class struggle, the international world revolution with the weapons of the terror and the violence. National Socialism fights for the reconciliation and consequent adjustment of the differences in life and the union of all for common benefits. Bolshevism teaches the overcoming of an alleged class rule by the dictatorship of the power of a different class. National Socialism does not attach importance to a only theoretical rule of the working class, but especially on the practical improvement of their living conditions and standard of living. Bolshevism fights for a theory and, for it, sacrifices millions of people, immense values of traditional culture and traditions, and achieves, compared with us, only a very low standard of living for all. '''As National Socialists, our hearts are full with admiration and respect for the great achievements of the past, not only in our own people but also far beyond. We are happy to belong to an European cultural community that has so tremendously embossed today's world with a stamp of its mind. Bolshevism rejects this cultural achievement of mankind, claiming that has found the beginning of the real cultural and human history in the year of birth of Marxism.''' We, National Socialists, do not want to be of the same opinion as our church organizations in this or that organizational question. But we never want a lack of belief in religion or any faith, and do not wish that our churches become club-houses or cinemas. Bolshevism teaches the godlessness and acts accordingly. '''We National Socialists see in private property a higher level of human economic development that according to the differences in performance controls the management of what has been accomplished enabling and guaranteeing the advantage of a higher standard of living for everyone. Bolshevism destroys not only private property but also private initiative and the readiness to shoulder responsibility.''' It has not been able to save millions of human beings from starvation in Russia, the greatest Agrarian State in the world. It would be unthinkable to transfer such a catastrophe into Germany, because, at the of the day, in Russia there are 10 city dwellers for every 90 country dwellers, but in Germany for only 25 farmers there are 75 city dwellers. National Socialists and Bolshevists both are convinced they are a world apart from each other and their differences can never be bridged. Apart from that, there were thousands of our people slain and maimed in the fight against Bolshevism. '''If Russia likes Bolshevism it is not our affair, but if Bolshevism casts its nets over to Germany, then we will fight it tooth and nail.'''
**Speech made at the Reichstag (21 May 1935) Found in ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_-htwAACAAJ&dq=hitler+may+21+1935+speech&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir0MTAmInWAhXPaCYKHaFIB2UQ6AEIJjAA Translation of Herr Hitler's Speech to the German Reichstag on May 21, 1935]'' Foreign Office Press. {{Page needed}} [https://archive.org/stream/RedeDesFhrersUndReichskanzlersAdolfHitlerVorDemReichstagAm21.Mai/MicrosoftWord-Ah19350521#page/n11/mode/2up German version]
* We want this people to be faithful, and you must learn fidelity. We want this people to be obedient, and you must practice obedience. We want this people to be peace-loving but also courageous, and you must therefore be peace-loving and at the same time courageous. We do not want this people to grow soft, but we want it to be hard so that it will be able to withstand the hardships of life. And for this you have to harden yourselves in your youth. You must learn to be hard, to stand privations without breaking down. We want this people to love honor and you already in the days of your youth must live up to this concept of honor.
** Speech 14 September 1935; from Gordon W. Prange (1945). ''Hitler's Words''. New York: American Council on Public Affairs, p. 124.
* Whenever I stand up for the German peasant, it is for the sake of the Volk. I have neither ancestral estate nor manor… I believe I am the only statesman in the world who does not have a bank account. I hold no stock, I have no shares in any companies. I do not draw any dividends.
** As quoted in ''The Third Reich: A New History'', [[w:Michael Burleigh | Michael Burleigh]], Hill and Wang, 2001, p. 246. Speech to the Krupp Locomotive factory workers in Essen, March 27, 1936.
* I only acknowledge one nobility—that of labour.
** Quoted in the Nazi Party official newspaper ''[[w:Völkischer Beobachter|Völkischer Beobachter]]'' (Nov. 21, 1936), [[w: Richard Grunberger | Richard Grunberger]], ''The 12-year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933–1945'' (1971) p. 47.
* There is a difference between the theoretical knowledge of socialism and the practical life of socialism. People are not born socialists, but must first be taught how to become them.
** As quoted in ''{{w|The Third Reich: A New History}}'' by {{w|Michael Burleigh}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=l5gcZpnL5QUC&pg=PA224]
* The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute therefore the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.
** ''[http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler1.htmhttp://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler1.htm On National Socialism and World Relations]'', speech delivered by Hitler in the German Reichstag, (January 30, 1937). German translation published by H. Müller & Sohn in Berlin.
* Is there a nobler or more excellent kind of Socialism and is there a truer form of Democracy than this National Socialism which is so organized that through it each one among the millions of German boys is given the possibility of finding his way to the highest office in the nation, should it please Providence to come to his aid.
** ''[http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler1.htmhttp://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler1.htm On National Socialism and World Relations]'', delivered in the German Reichstag, January 30, 1937. German translation published by H. Müller & Sohn in Berlin.
* And numerous people whose families belong to the peasantry and working classes are now filling prominent positions in this National Socialist State. Some of them actually hold the highest offices in the leadership of the nation, as Cabinet Ministers, ''Reichsstatthalter'' and ''Gauleiter''. But '''National Socialism always bears in mind the interests of the people as a whole and not the interests of one class or another.''' The National Socialist Revolution has not aimed at turning a privileged class into a class which will have no rights in the future. Its aim has been to '''grant equal rights to those social strata that hitherto were denied such rights.'''
** Speech by Adolf Hitler, ''[http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler1.htmhttp://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler1.htm On National Socialism and World Relations]'', delivered in the German Reichstag, January 30, 1937. German translation published by H. Müller & Sohn in Berlin.
* There can be but one German Youth Movement, because there is but one way in which German youth can be educated and trained… This Reich stands, and is building itself up anew, upon its youth. And this Reich will hand over its youth to no one, but will take its education and its formation upon itself.
** As quoted in ''The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-45'', [[w:John S. Conway (historian) | John S. Conway]] New York, NY, Basic Books, 1968, p. 178. Hitler speech on May 1, 1937
[[File:Cloud-to-ground lightning stroke - NOAA.jpg|thumb|I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.]]
* In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: '''if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!'''
** speech to the Reichstag, 30 January 1939, as quoted at [http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/threat.htm The History Place].
*We are going to destroy the Jews. They are not going to get away with what they did on 9 November 1918. The day of reckoning has come.
**To the Czechoslovakian foreign minister (January 21, 1939) quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=K2pVlpLqmPAC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=We+are+going+to+destroy+the+Jews.+They+are+not+going+to+get+away+with+what+they+did+on+9+November+1918.&source=bl&ots=z9H6ZVZY0C&sig=iG-hsqk8dUMTrdadIxa3m5cOYsY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBpar5nZbXAhVH7CYKHVq_DOwQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=We%20are%20going%20to%20destroy%20the%20Jews.%20They%20are%20not%20going%20to%20get%20away%20with%20what%20they%20did%20on%209%20November%201918.&f=false Sarah Ann Gordon, Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question" pg. 130]
*Everything I undertake is directed against Russia. If the West is too stupid and blind to grasp this, then I shall be compelled to come to an agreement with Russia, beat the West and then after their defeat turn against the Soviet Union with all my forces.
**Discussion with Jacob Burckhardt, League of Nation commissioner. Quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=1nPPbpXUZA0C&pg=PA126&dq=hitler+is+against+russia+the+west&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR3PP6n5bXAhVC6CYKHTKJB3EQ6AEISjAG#v=onepage&q=hitler%20is%20against%20russia%20the%20west&f=false Norman Rich, Hitler's War Aims: Ideology, the Nazi State, and the Course of Expansion pg. 126]
* What is important is that our Volk overcomes the aggressor and hence wins a future for itself. In a few weeks, the National Socialist combat readiness must have transformed itself into a unity sworn unto life and death. And then the capitalist war agitators in England and its satellite states shall shortly realize what it means to have attacked Europe’s greatest Volk state without proper cause.
** As quoted in ''{{w|Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations}}'' by {{w|Max Domarus}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=5tdVAAAAYAAJ]
* I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
** As quoted in ''{{w|The Third Reich: A New History}}'' by {{w|Michael Burleigh}}, p.1884
==== From the film ''[[Triumph of the Will]]'' (1935) ====
* It is our will that this state shall endure for a thousand years. We are happy to know that the future is ours entirely!
* We want this people to be hard, not soft, and you must steel yourselves for it in your youth!
* We want a society with neither castes nor ranks and you must not allow these ideas to grow within you!
* Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.
* When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.
* All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!
* It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!
=== 1940s ===
* We want to build up a new state! That is why the others hate us so much today…. They are, after all, plutocracies in which a tiny clique of capitalists dominate the masses, and this, naturally, in close cooperation with international Jews and Freemasons.
** As quoted in ''{{w|The Third Reich: A New History}}'' by {{w|Michael Burleigh}}, p.2087
* After mastering its internal divisions, National Socialist Germany has proceeded step by step to cast off its enslavement…. Nevertheless, the Jewish-internationalist capitalists in connection with socially reactionary classes in the Western States have successfully roused the world democracies against Germany.
** As quoted in ''{{w|The Third Reich: A New History}}'' by {{w|Michael Burleigh}}, p.1909
* In those countries, it is actually capital that rules; that is, nothing more than a clique of a few hundred men who possess untold wealth and, as a consequence of the peculiar structure of their national life, are more or less independent and free. They say: 'Here we have liberty.' By this they mean, above all, an uncontrolled economy, and by an uncontrolled economy, the freedom not only to acquire capital but to make absolutely free use of it. That means freedom from national control or control by the people both in the acquisition of capital and in its employment. This is really what they mean when they speak of liberty. These capitalists create their own press and then speak of the 'freedom of the press.' In reality, every one of the newspapers has a master, and in every case this master is the capitalist, the owner. This master, not the editor, is the one who directs the policy of the paper. If the editor tries to write other than what suits the master, he is ousted the next day. This press, which is the absolutely submissive and characterless slave of the owners, molds public opinion.
** Speech to the Workers of Berlin (10 December 1940) [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_Speech_to_the_Workers_of_Berlin_(10_December_1940)]
* Yes, certainly, we jeopardize the liberty to profiteer at the expense of the community, and, if necessary, we even abolish it.
** Speech to the Workers of Berlin (10 December 1940)
* All my life I have been a 'have-not.' At home I was a 'have-not.' I regard myself as belonging to them and have always fought exclusively for them. I defended them and, therefore, I stand before the world as their representative.
** Speech to the Workers of Berlin (10 December 1940)
* The creation of a socially just state, a model society that would continue to eradicate all social barriers.
** Speech to workers at Berlin’s Rheinmetall-Borsig factory, Oct. 10, 1940. As quoted in, ''Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State'', [[w:Götz Aly | Götz Aly]], New York: NY, Metropolitan Books (2007) p. 13. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hOIpGubiiZYC&pg=PA13]
* Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.
** Speech to officer cadets at the [[w:Berlin Sportpalast|Berlin Sportpalast]], 18 December 1940. {{cite book| title = Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945 (English Volume III: 1939-1940) | last = Domarus |first = Max | authorlink = Max Domarus |publisher = Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers | year = 1997|page=2162 |isbn = 0865166277 }}
* It is already war history how the German Armies defeated the legions of [[W:Themes in Nazi propaganda#Capitalists|capitalism and plutocracy]]. After forty-five days this campaign in the West was equally and emphatically terminated.
** [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-order-of-the-day-calling-for-invasion-of-yugoslovia-and-greece-april-1941 Berlin: Hitler’s Order of the Day Calling for Invasion of Yugoslovia and Greece] (April 6, 1941)
* What the world did not deem possible the German people have achieved…. It is already war history how the German Armies defeated the legions of capitalism and plutocracy. After forty-five days this campaign in the West was equally and emphatically terminated.
** “Adolf Hitler’s Order of the Day Calling for Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece,” Berlin, (April 6, 1941), ''New York Times'', April 7, 1941
* I, on the other hand, have tried for two decades to build a new socialist order in Germany, with a minimum of interference and without harming our productive capacity.
** Hitler's “Barbarossa” Proclamation, (June 22, 1941) [http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler4.htm]
* The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful, and unrelenting harshness. All officers will have to rid themselves of obsolete ideologies. I know that the necessity for such means of waging war is beyond the comprehension of you generals but . . . I insist absolutely that my orders be executed without contradiction.
** Speaking about the invasion of Russia [http://mentalfloss.com/article/28033/operation-barbarossa-biggest-military-adventure-history].
* One may regret living at a period when it's impossible to form an idea of the shape the world of the future will assume. But there's one thing I can predict to eaters of meat: the world of the future will be vegetarian.
** Stenographic transcripts translated by Hugh Trevor-Roper Bullock, 11 November 1941, Alan (1993). Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives. Vintage. p. 679. ISBN 0-679-72994-1.
*There is only one duty: to Germanise this country [the East] by the immigration of Germans, and to look upon the natives as Redskins.
**Secret conversation October 17, 1941 quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=J1g7pxIrctQC&pg=PA703&lpg=PA703&dq='There+is+only+one+duty:+to+Germanize+%5B%E2%80%9Cthe+East%E2%80%9D%5D+by+the+immigration+of+Germans,+and+to+look+upon+the+natives+as+Redskins&source=bl&ots=ivCFt6jbTz&sig=NNM68pyr1zvuOQHh98r1XK0XlL0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwillfzazpTXAhXFyyYKHblIApYQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q='There%20is%20only%20one%20duty%3A%20to%20Germanize%20%5B%E2%80%9Cthe%20East%E2%80%9D%5D%20by%20the%20immigration%20of%20Germans%2C%20and%20to%20look%20upon%20the%20natives%20as%20Redskins&f=false World History, Volume 1 pg. 703] and [https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008219 The Holocaust Encyclopedia]
* National-Socialism came to power in Germany in the same year as Roosevelt was elected President. . . Roosevelt comes from a rich family and belongs to the class whose path is smoothed in the Democracies. I am only the child of a small, poor family and had to fight my way by work and industry. When the Great War came, Roosevelt occupied a position where he got to know only its pleasant consequences, enjoyed by those who do business while others bleed. . . I shared the fate of millions, and Franklin Roosevelt only the fate of the so-called Upper Ten Thousand. . . he made profits out of the inflation, out of the misery of others, while I, together with many hundreds of thousands more, lay in hospital.
** ''[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hitler-s-speech-declaring-war-against-the-united-states Speech Declaring War Against the United States]'' (December 11, 1941)
* When Churchill and Roosevelt state that they want to build up a new social order, later on, it is like a hairdresser with a bald head recommending an unfortunate hair-restorer. These men, who live in the most socially backward states, have misery and distress enough in their own countries to occupy themselves with the distribution of foodstuffs…. We are allied with strong peoples, who in the same need are faced with the same enemies. The American President and his Plutocratic clique have mocked us as the Have-nots-that is true, but the Have-nots will see to it that they are not robbed of the little they have.
** ''[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hitler-s-speech-declaring-war-against-the-united-states Speech Declaring War Against the United States]'' (December 11, 1941)
* For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.
** speaking about [[Winston Churchill]] at the [[w:Reichstag|Reichstag]], 4 May 1941 [http://humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/speeches/1941-05-04.html].
* I did not want this struggle. Since January, 1933, when Providence entrusted me with the leadership of the German Reich, I had an aim before my eyes which was essentially incorporated in the program of our National Socialist party. I have never been disloyal to this aim and have never abandoned my program... Only when the entire German people become a single community of sacrifice can we expect and hope that Almighty God will help us. The Almighty has never helped a lazy man. He does not help the coward. He does not help a people that cannot help itself. The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.
** Radio broadcast from Berlin, 3 October 1941. [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-broadcast-to-the-german-people-on-the-winter-help-scheme-october-1941]
* In my eyes, the year 1942 already has behind it the most fateful trial of our people. That was the winter of '41 to '42. I may be permitted to say that in that winter the German people, and in particular its Wehrmacht, were weighed in the balance by Providence. Nothing worse can or will happen. That we conquered that winter, that "General Winter," that at last the German fronts stood, and that this spring, that is, early this summer, we were able to proceed again, that, I believe, is the proof that Providence was content with the German people... You do not realize what is hidden beneath these words in the way of human heroism, and also of human pain, and suffering, and we may say, often anxiety too, naturally, deathly anxiety on the part of all those who, especially for the first time, are placed before the trial of God in this highest court.
** ''[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-address-at-the-opening-of-the-winter-relief-campaign-september-1942 Address at the Opening of the Winter Relief Campaign]'' (September 30, 1942)
* And today I stand by this same view. Fate, or Providence, will give the victory to those who most deserve it... And when now, after 10 years, I again survey this period, I can say that upon no people has Providence ever bestowed more successes than upon us. The miracles we have achieved in the last three years in the face of a whole world of enemies are unique in history, especially the crises we very naturally often had in these years.
** ''[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-speech-on-the-19th-anniversary-of-the-ldquo-beer-hall-putsch-rdquo-november-1942 Speech on the 19th Anniversary of the “Beer Hall Putsch”]'' (November 8, 1942)
* You know my opinion of Franco... We ought to keep these Red Spaniards on the back burner... They're lost to democracy, and to that reactionary crew round Franco too... I believe you to the letter, Speer, that they were impressive people. I must say, in general, that during the [[w:Spanish Civil War|civil war]] the idealism was not on Franco's side; it was to be found among the Reds ... one of these days we'll be able to make use of them... The whole thing will start all over again. But with us on the opposite side.
**As quoted in [[w:Albert Speer|Albert Speer]]'s diary entry for 26 December 1950 recalling a conversation with Hitler in January 1943, published in ''Spandau: The Secret Diary'' (2000), p. 167
[[File:Ares Ludovisi Altemps Inv8602 n3.jpg|thumb|The god of war has gone over to the other side.]]
* Providence shows no mercy to weak nations, but recognizes the right of existence-only of sound and strong nations...<p>This Jewish bolshevist annihilation of nations and its western European and American procurers can be met only in one way: by using every ounce of strength with the extreme fanaticism and stubborn steadfastness that merciful God gives to men in hard times for the defense of their own lives...<p>We have suffered so much that it only steels us to fanatical resolve to hate Our enemies a thousand times more and to regard them for what they are destroyers of an eternal culture and annihilators of humanity. Out of this hate (bate?) a holy will is born to oppose these destroyers of our existence with all the strength that God has given us and to crush them in the end. During its 2,000-year history our people has survived so many terrible times that we have no doubt that we will also master our present plight.
** ''[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-speech-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-announcement-of-the-national-socialist-party-s-program-february-1945 Speech on the 25th Anniversary of the Announcement of the National Socialist Party's Program]'' (February 24, 1945)
* If [[w:World War II|the war]] is lost, [[Germany|the nation]] will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation (Russia)<ref>{{cite web|title=The collapse of the Third Reich. Retribution is at hand. Germany at the end of the war (Russian: Крах Третьего Рейха. Возмездие близко. Германия в конце войны)|url=http://militera.lib.ru/h/lavrenev_popov2/02.html|publisher=Лавренов С. Я., Попов И. М. Крах Третьего рейха. — M.: ACT, 2000.|accessdate=2016-07-02}}</ref>. Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed.
** To [[Albert Speer]] (1945), as quoted in [http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/enter-bunker.htm "Defeat of Hitler: Enter the Bunker"] (2010), ''The History Place''
* The war is lost!
**Regarding the fate of World War II (1945), as quoted in [http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/enter-bunker.htm "Defeat of Hitler: Enter the Bunker"] (2010), ''The History Place''
=== Other remarks ===
* '''The god of war has gone over to the other side.'''
** Statement to [[w:Alfred Jodl|Alfred Jodl]], after losses in the [[w:Battle of Stalingrad|Battle of Stalingrad]], as quoted in ''The Second World War: An Illustrated History'' (1979) by [[w: A. J. P. Taylor|A. J. P. Taylor]]
* Works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way to the German people.
** [[Adolf Hitler]] as in a speech the summer before the Degenerate Art Exhibition as quoted without citation in "[http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24819441 Degenerate art: Why Hitler hated modernism]" by Lucy Burns, ''BBC''.
* They bring in high earnings without work. One of these days I’ll sweep away this outrage and nationalize all corporations.
** As quoted in ''Spandau: The Secret Diaries'', Albert Speer, New York, NY, Pocket Books (1977) p. 84
* A strong State will see that production is carried on in the national interests, and, if these interests are contravened, can proceed to expropriate the enterprise concerned and take over its administration.
** As quoted in ''Hitler and ''I, [[w:Otto Strasser | Otto Strasser]], Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1940) pp. 113-114
* I am a socialist, and a very different kind of socialist from your rich friend Reventlow. I was once an ordinary workingman… But your kind of socialism is nothing but Marxism.
** As quoted in ''Hitler and I'', [[w:Otto Strasser |Otto Strasser]], Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1940) p. 106
* We shall banish want; we shall banish fear. The essence of National Socialism is human welfare. . . . National Socialism is the revolution of the common man. Rooted in a fuller life for every German from childhood to old age, National Socialism means a new day of abundance at home and a better world order abroad.
** As quoted in ''Men in Motion'', Henry J. Taylor, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York: NY, (1944) p. 59. Also quoted in ''As We Go Marching'', John T. Flynn, The Ludwig von Mises Institute (2007) p. 154, first published 1944
* Everyone was at one time a [[Social Democrat]].
** As quoted in ''Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen 1905-1924'', Eberhard Jäckel and Axel Kuhn, (editors) Stuttrart: Deusche Verlags-Anstalt, 1980, p. 448
* You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.
** Statement to [[Franz Halder]], as quoted in ''{{w|The Psychopathic God}}'' (1993) by [[w: Robert G. L. Waite|Robert George Leeson Waite]], p. xi
* We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany.
** As quoted in ''A History of National Socialism'', {{w|Konrad Heiden}}, A. A. Knopf (1935) p. 100
* I know that some Man capable of giving our problems a final solution must appear. I have sought such a Man. I could nowhere discover Him. And that is why I have set myself to do the preparatory work; only the most urgent preparatory work, for I know that I am myself not, the One. And I know also what is missing in me. But the other One still remains aloof, and nobody comes forward, and there is no more time to be lost.
** As quoted in ''Warum? Woher? Aber Wohin?'' by Hans Grimm, p. 14
* This German Volksgemeinschaft is truly practical socialism and therefore National Socialism in the best sense of the word. Here everyone is obligated to carry his load.
** As quoted in ''Stagnation and Renewal in Social Policy: The Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes'', editors: Martin Rein, Gøsta Esping-Andersen, and Lee Rainwater (1987) p. 63
* In a hundred years time, perhaps, a great man will appear who may offer them (the Germans) a chance at salvation. He'll take me as a model, use my ideas, and follow the course I have charted.
** As quoted in “Der Führer als Redner,” Adolf Hitler. Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers" (The Fuherer as a speaker) by [[Joseph Goebbels]]
* Not long ago, an American magazine wrote that what was worst about National Socialism was its women. They said that National Socialism did more for women than any other nation. It improved their social position. It began to bring them together in tremendous organizations. It sent the women of the educated classes into the factories so that female workers could go on vacation, and so on. The paper concluded that the democracies could not imitate this.
** As quoted in ''{{w|The Third Reich: A New History}}'' by {{w|Michael Burleigh}}, p.2842
* I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!
** As quoted in ''[[w:Hitler and Nazism|Hitler and Nazism]]'' (1961) by [[w:Louis Leo Snyder|Louis Leo Snyder]], p. 66
* I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual—I would say divine—creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.
** As quoted in ''Secret Conversations with Hitler: The Two Newly-Discovered 1931 Interviews'' (1971) by [[w:Richard Breiting|Richard Breiting]], p. 68
* Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life...
** As quoted in ''How the Allies Won'' (1995) by Richard Overy, citing ''Hitler: The Man and the Military Leader'' (1972) by P.E. Schramm
* National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.
** As quoted in ''Hitler'' (1974) by Joachim C. Fest, p. 533
===''Hitler Speaks'' (1940)===
:<small>Attributed by {{w|Hermann Rauschning}} in ''Hitler Speaks'' (1940) also known as ''The Voice of Destruction'', the [[W:Hermann Rauschning#Authenticity of Hitler Speaks|book's authenticity is disputted.]]</small>
* It is not Germany that will turn {{w|Bolshevist}} but Bolshevism that will become a sort of [[Nazi | National Socialism]].Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine [[revolutionary]] feeling, which is alive everywhere in [[Russia]] except where are [[W:Jewish Bolshevism#Nazi Germany|Jewish Marxists]]. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former [[Communists]] are to be admitted to the party at once. The ''{{w|petit bourgeois}}'' Social-Democrat and the [[trade-union]] boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will. ... Our spirit is so strong, and the power of our magnificent movement to transform souls so elemental, that men are remodeled against their will. ... A {{w|social revolution}} would lend me new, unsuspected powers. I do not fear permeation with revolutionary {{w|Communist propaganda}}.
** pp. 131-132.
* We are obligated to depopulate as part of our mission of preserving the German population. We shall have to develop a technique of depopulation. If you ask me what I mean by depopulation, I mean the removal of entire racial units. And that is what I intend to carry out… Nature is cruel, therefore we, too, may be cruel…. I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin!
** p. 89.
* The party is all-embracing. It rules our lives in all their breadth and depth… There will be no license, no free space, in which the individual belongs to himself. This is Socialism… Let them then own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the party, is supreme over them, regardless whether they are owners or workers.
** p. 191.
* I have learned a great deal from Marxism as I do not hesitate to admit… The difference between them and myself is that I have really put into practice what these peddlers and pen pushers have timidly begun. The whole of National Socialism is based on it… National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.
* p. 186
=== ''{{w|Hitler's Table Talks}} (1941-1944)'' (published 1953) ===
:<small><b>''Die Bormann Vermerke'': Transcripts of Hitler's conversations (5 July 1941 - 30 November 1944), made under the supervision of [[Martin Bormann]], published in the UK as ''Hitler's Table Talks'' (1953) It.</b> The [[W:Hitler's Table Talk#Controversies|reliability of the translation is disputed.]]</small>
* '''I have not come into this [[world]] to make men better, but [[Exploitation|to make use of their]] [[weaknesses]].'''
* I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
** Statement in conversation (7 January 1942)
* I absolutely insist on protecting private property. It is natural and salutary that the individual should be inspired by the wish to devote a part of the income from his work to building up and expanding a family estate. Suppose the estate consists of a factory. I regard it as axiomatic, in the ordinary way, that this factory will be better run by one of the members of the family that it would be by a State functionary—providing, of course, that the family remains healthy. In this sense, we must encourage private initiative.
** A private statement made on March 24, 1942.
* Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a clerk. Stalin owes nothing to rhetoric. He governs from his office, thanks to a bureaucracy that obeys his every nod and gesture. It's striking that Russian propaganda, in the criticisms it makes of us, always holds itself within certain limits. Stalin, that cunning Caucasian, is apparently quite ready to abandon European Russia, if he thinks that a failure to solve her problems would cause him to lose everything. Let nobody think Stalin might reconquer Europe from the Urals! It is as if I were installed in Slovakia, and could set out from there to reconquer the Reich. This is the catastrophe that will cause the loss of the Soviet Empire.
** night of 18-19 July 1941.
*I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.
** 25 October 1941.
* The Jew can take the credit for having corrupted the Graeco-Roman world. Previously words were used to express thoughts; he used words to invent the art of disguising thoughts. Lies are his strength, his weapon in the struggle. The Jew is said to be gifted. His only gift is that of juggling with other people's property and swindling each and everyone. Suppose I find by chance a picture that I believe to be a Titian. I tell the owner what I think of it, and I offer him a price. In a similar case, the Jew begins by declaring that the picture is valueless, he buys it for a song and sells it at a profit of 5000 per cent. To persuade people that a thing which has value, has none, and vice versa—that's not a sign of intelligence. They can't even overcome the smallest economic crisis!
** 5 November 1941.
* It goes without saying that we have no affinities with the Japanese. They're too foreign to us, by their way of living, by their culture. But my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance. I feel myself more akin to any European country, no matter which. Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together—a State where 80 per cent of the revenue is drained away for the public purse—a country where everything is built on the dollar? From this point of view, I consider the British State very much superiour.
** 7 January 1942.
* We shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew.
** 22 February 1942.
* The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.
** 11 April 1942.
* The American statesmen, by subjecting the Church to the same regulations governing all other associations and institutions, have limited its field of activity to reasonable proportions; and, as the State does not contribute from State Funds one single cent to the church, the whole clergy cringes and sings hymns in praise of Government. This is not to be wondered at! The parson, like everyone else, has got to live; what he makes out of the public offertory doesn't amount to much, and so he is more or less dependent on State charity. As he has no legal claim whatever on the State, he therefore takes very good care that his demeanour is always pleasing in the eyes of the State and therefore deserving of the crumbs it cares to toss to him.
** 4 July 1942.
* The development of relations between State and Church affords a very instructive example of how the carelessness of a single statesman can have after-effects which last for centuries. When Charlemagne was kneeling at prayer in St. Peter's, Rome, at Christmas in the year 800, the Pope, giving him no time to work out the possible effects of so symbolic an action, suddenly bent down and presto! popped a golden crown on his head! By permitting it, the Emperor delivered himself and his successors into the hands of a power which subjected the German Government and the German people to five hundred years of martyrdom.
** 4 July 1942.
* One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.
** on the [[w:Oberammergau Passion Play|Passion Play at Oberammergau]], 5 July 1942.
* In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch—the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs—was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.
** 1 August 1942.
* As for the ridiculous hundred million Slavs, we will mould the best of them as we see fit, and we will isolate the rest of them in their own pig-styes; and anyone who talks about cherishing the local inhabitants and civilising them, goes straight off into a concentration camp!
** 6 August 1942.
===''The Testament of Adolf Hitler'' (1945)===
:<small>Genoud, François, ed. (1961). ''The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945''. London: Cassell. Historian [[w:Ian Kershaw|Ian Kershaw]] cautions "This English version contains a very loose and untrustworthy translation of the German text—itself not guaranteed to be identical with any long-lost original or the lost copy of that original—which was eventually published only in 1981... The available German text is, therefore, at best a construct; neither the original nor the copy of that original exists. [Eduard] Baumgarten tended, since the content was consonant with Hitler's thinking and expression, to accept the authenticity of the text. There is, however, no proof and, therefore, no reliable German text whose authenticity can be placed beyond question." (''Hitler, 1936-45: Nemesis'', 2001, [http://books.google.com/books?id=B5fJYMxufVcC&pg=PA1025 p. 1025.])</small>
* This is the last disgusting death-rattle of a corrupt and outworn system which is a blot on the history of this people. '''Since [[American Civil War|the civil war]], in which [[Confederate States of America|the southern states]] were conquered, against all historical logic and sound sense, the American people have been in a condition of political and popular decay.''' In [[American Civil War|that war]], it was not the Southern States, but the American people themselves who were conquered. In this spurious blossoming of economic progress and power politics, America has ever since been drawn deeper into the mire of progressive self-destruction. '''The beginnings of a great new social order based on the principle of [[slavery]] and [[Bigotry|inequality]] were destroyed by [[American Civil War|that war]], and with them also the embryo of a future truly great [[United States|America]] that would not have been ruled by a corrupt caste of tradesmen, but by a real ''Herren''-class that would have swept away all the falsities of liberty and equality.'''
**[https://books.google.com/books?id=2zxfyeUHKEAC&pg=PA69 During an after-dinner discussion in Munich] (1933), regarding the [[American Civil War]]
* Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam.
**4 February 1945.
* We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island.
**4 February 1945.
* It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples.
**7 February 1945.
* The white races did, of course, give some things to the natives, and they were the worst gifts that they could possibly have made, those plagues of our own modern world-materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism and syphilis. For the rest, '''since these peoples possessed qualities of their own which were superior to anything we could offer them, they have remained essentially unchanged'''. Where imposition by force was attempted, the results were even more disastrous, and common sense, realizing the futility of such measures, should preclude any recourse to their introduction. '''One solitary success must be conceded to the colonizers: everywhere they have succeeded in arousing hatred, a hatred that urges these peoples, awakened from their slumbers by us, to rise and drive us out. Indeed, it looks almost as though they had awakened solely and simply for that purpose!''' Can anyone assert that colonization has increased the number of Christians in the world? Where are those conversions en masse which mark the success of Islam? Here and there one finds isolated islets of Christians, Christians in name, that is, rather than by conviction; and that is the sum total of the successes of this magnificent Christian religion, the guardian of supreme Truth! '''Taking everything into consideration, Europe's policy of colonization has ended in a complete failure.'''
**7 February 1945.
* I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges.
**10 February 1945.
* There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade.
**13 February 1945.
* In saying this, I promise you I am quite free of all racial hatred. It is, in any case, undesirable that one race should mix with other races. Except for a few gratuitous successes, which I am prepared to admit, systematic cross-breeding has never produced good results. Its desire to remain racially pure is a proof of the vitality and good health of a race. Pride in one's own race—and that does not imply contempt for other races—is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilisations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilisation to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.
**13 February 1945.
* This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity—for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race.
**13 February 1945.
* Our racial pride is not aggressive except in so far as the Jewish race is concerned. '''We use the term Jewish race as a matter of convenience, for in reality and from the genetic point of view there is no such thing as the Jewish race. There does, however, exist a community, to which, in fact, the term can be applied and the existence of which is admitted by the Jews themselves. It is the spiritually homogeneous group, to membership of which all Jews throughout the world deliberately adhere, regardless of their whereabouts and of their country of domicile; and it is this group of human beings to which we give the title Jewish race'''.
**13 February 1945.
* I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them!
**14 February 1945.
* Never, at any price, should we have put our money on France and against the peoples subjected to her yoke. On the contrary, we should have helped them to achieve their liberty and, if necessary, should have goaded them into doing so. There was nothing to stop us in 1940 from making a gesture of this sort in the Near East and in North Africa. In actual fact our diplomats instead set about the task of consolidating French power, not only in Syria, but in Tunis, in Algeria and Morocco as well. Our 'gentlemen' obviously preferred to maintain cordial relations with distinguished Frenchmen, rather than with a lot of hirsute revolutionaries, with a chorus of musical comedy officers, whose one idea was to cheat us, rather than with the Arabs, who would have been loyal partners for us.
**14 February 1945.
* In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.
** 15 February 1945 — discussing the reasons for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
* I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so.
**15 February 1945.
* Our Italian ally has been a source of embarrassment to us everywhere. It was this alliance, for instance, which prevented us from pursuing a revolutionary policy in North Africa. In the nature of things, this territory was becoming an Italian preserve and it was as such that the Duce laid claim to it. Had we been on our own, we could have emancipated the Moslem countries dominated by France; and that would have had enormous repercussions in the Near East, dominated by Britain, and in Egypt. But with our fortunes linked to those of the Italians, the pursuit of such a policy was not possible. All Islam vibrated at the news of our victories. The Egyptians, the Irakis and the whole of the Near East were all ready to rise in revolt. Just think what we could have done to help them, even to incite them, as would have been both our duty and in our own interest! But the presence of the Italians at our side paralysed us; it created a feeling of malaise among our Islamic friends, who inevitably saw in us accomplices, willing or unwilling, of their oppressors. For the Italians in these parts of the world are more bitterly hated, of course, than either the British or the French. The memories of the barbarous, reprisals taken against the Senussi are still vivid. Then again the ridiculous pretensions of the Duce to be regarded as The Sword of Islam evokes the same sneering chuckle now as it did before the war. This title, which is fitting for Mahomed and a great conqueror like Omar, Mussolini caused to be conferred on himself by a few wretched brutes whom he had either bribed or terrorized into doing so. We had a great chance of pursuing a splendid policy with regard to Islam. But we missed the bus, as we missed it on several other occasions, thanks to our loyalty to the Italian alliance! In this theatre of operations, then, the Italians prevented us from playing our best card, the emancipation of the French subjects and the raising of the standard of revolt in the countries oppressed by the British. Such a policy would have aroused the enthusiasm of the whole of Islam. It is a characteristic of the Moslem world, from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific, that what affects one, for good or for evil, affects all.
**17 February 1945.
* Life does not forgive weakness.
**17 February 1945.
* The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever label they wear, whether they call themselves Christians, Communists, humanitarians, whether they are merely sincere but stupid or wire-pullers and cynics, they are all makers of slaves. I myself have always kept my eye fixed on a paradise which, in the nature of things, lies well within our reach. I mean an improvement in the lot of the German people.
**21 February 1945.
* Furthermore, thanks to the Marxist religion, they (the Russians) have everything required to make them patient. They have been promised happiness on earth (a feature which distinguishes Marxism from the Christian religion)—but in the future. The Jew, Mardochee Marx, like the good Jew that he was, was awaiting the coming of the Messiah. He has placed the Messiah conception in a setting of historic materialism by asserting that terrestrial happiness is a factor in an almost endless process of evolution. "Happiness is within your reach," he says, "that I promise you. But you must let evolution take its course and not try to hurry matters." Mankind always falls for a specious trick of that sort... Lenin did not have the time, but Stalin will carry on the good work, and so on and so on... Marxism is a very powerful force. But how shall we assess Christianity, that other child of Judaism, which will not commit itself further than to promise the faithful happiness in another world? Believe me, it is incomparably stronger!
**25 February 1945.
* I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence.
**26 February.
* The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France.
**2 April 1945.
* With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other—the United States and Soviet Russia. The laws of both history and geography will compel these two Powers to a trial of strength, either military or in the fields of economics and ideology.
**2 April 1945.
===''[[Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant]]'' (1978) ===
<small>Attributed by {{w|Otto Wagener}} in ''{{w|Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant}}'', editor, {{w|Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.}}, {{w|Yale University Press}} (1985)</small>
* In the past—that is, for most people it is still the present-the individual is everything, everything is directed at maintaining his life and improving his existence, everything focuses on him. ... In socialism of the future, on the other hand, what counts is the whole, the [[W:Volksgemeinschaft#Nazi Volksgemeinschaft|community of the Volk]]. The individual and his life play only a subsidiary role. He can be sacrificed—he is prepared to sacrifice himself should the whole demand it.
** p. 16
* Aren’t these [[liberals]], those reprobate defenders of [[W:Individualism#Liberalism|individualism]], ashamed to see the tears of the mothers and wives, or don’t these cold-blooded accountants even notice? Have they already grown so inhuman that they are no longer capable of feeling? It is understandable why bolshevism simply removed such creatures. They were worthless to humanity, nothing but an encumbrance to their [[W:Volk (German word)#Nazi era|Volk]]. Even the bees get rid of the drones when they can no longer be of service to the hive. The Bolshevik procedures are thus quite natural.
** pp.16-17
* But first, there will have to be national socialism. Otherwise the people and their governments are not ready for the socialism of nations. It is not possible to be liberal to one’s own country and demand socialism among nations.
** p. 170
* What Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism failed to accomplish, we shall be in a position to achieve.
** p. 149
* After all, that’s exactly why we call ourselves National Socialists! We want to start by implementing [[W:Right-wing socialism|socialism]] in our nation among our Volk! It is not until the individual nations are socialist that they can address themselves to international socialism.
** p. 288
* But we National Socialists wish precisely to attract all socialists, even the Communists; we wish to win them over from their international camp to the national one.
** p. 26
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{{Misattributed begin}}
== Misattributed ==
*The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated again and again.
**''Variant'': The bigger/more blatant a lie, the more people will believe it.
***This misquote could possibly have two possible sources: an abridged version of a [[Adolf_Hitler#Vol_I|paragraph]] in Mein Kampf regarding the [[w:Big Lie|Big Lie]], or a report by the United States [[w:Office of Strategic Services|Office of Strategic Services]] about Hitler's psychological profile[http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-profile-03-02.html]. The second version is very close to an actual quote by [[Joseph Goebbels]].
* We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.
**This misattribution is sourced from John Toland. In ''Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography'' (1976), it is attributed to Hitler in a speech of May 1, 1927. It is recorded in ''Thoughts about the Tasks of the Future'' by Gregor Strasser on June 15, 1926.
*The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the Republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and from without. We need law and order. Yes, without law and order our nation cannot survive. Elect us and we shall restore law and order.
**Reported as refuted in the ''Congressional Record'': Lou Hiner, Jr., "Hitler's Phony Quotation on Law and Order", May 21, 1970, vol. 116, pp. 1676–77, reprinted from the ''Indianapolis News''; and M. Stanton Evans, "The Hitler Quote", August 11, 1970, vol. 116, p. 28349, reprinted from the ''National Review Bulletin'' (August 18, 1970).
*This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!
:*Bernard Harcourt of the University of Chicago Law School said this is "probably a fraud and was likely never uttered" in Bernard E. Harcourt: "On gun registration, the NRA, Adolf Hitler, and Nazi gun laws: Exploding the gun culture wars", June 2004, University of Chicago Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 67, pp. 9–10.
*I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.
**Adolf Hitler c. 1933; as quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=PndurCstDZMC&pg=PA251 ''Hitler Speaks''] (1939), by Hermann Rauschning, London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 247.
* The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode their rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which those changes can be reversed.
** Fake quote, according to [http://www.snopes.com/hitler-control-quote/ ''snopes.com''] (11 Jan 2016)
* The only religion I respect is Islam. The only prophet I admire is the Prophet Muhammad.
** Found in [[W:George Michael (professor)|George Michael]]'s 2006 book, ''{{w|The Enemy of My Enemy}}'',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RvLtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+only+religion+i+respect+is+islam%22 1]</ref> and also in Jake Neuman's 2015 book, ''Islam Sharia Law and Jihad are Treason''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HjKKCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA203&dq="the+only+religion+i+respect+is+islam" 2]</ref>
* Only one thing could have stopped our movement – if our adversaries had understood its principle and from the first day smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.
** Only partially true. The full quote:
***Only one danger could have jeopardised this development – if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of these ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.
** He thought that if his adversaries had ignored the ‘weakest’ elements of his movement, they would harm the party. See ''[https://zuriz.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/smashing-the-nucleus/ zuriz]'' for more.
{{misattributed end}}
== Quotes about Hitler ==
[[File:Stars & Stripes & Hitler Dead2.jpg|thumb|The test of greatness as applied to a political leader is the success of his plans and his enterprises, which means his ability to reach the goal for which he sets out.]]
=== Quotes before the end of World War II ===
(Note: many of the worst atrocities of Hitler's regime did not start to become widely known until the final months of this war)
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* He is credibly credited with being actuated by lofty, unselfish patriotism. He probably does not know himself just what he wants to accomplish. The keynote of his propaganda in speaking and writing is violent anti-Semitism. His followers are nicknamed the "Hakenkreuzler." So violent are Hitler's fulminations against the Jews that a number of prominent Jewish citizens are reported to have sought safe asylums in the Bavarian highlands, easily reached by fast motor cars, whence they could hurry their women and children when forewarned of an anti-Semitic St. Bartholomew's night.
* But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.
* A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them."
** Cyril Brown writing in New York Times (November 21, 1922)[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A0CE0D91E3EEE3ABC4951DFB7678389639EDE]
* [Hitler] was profoundly imbued with German paganism, more so, perhaps, than Ludendorff or Rosenberg himself.
** [[w:Otto Strasser | Otto Strasser]], ''Hitler and I'', Boston: MA, Houthton Miffin Company (1940) p. 59.
* For Hitler first hatred was not Communism, but [[w:Austria-Hungary|Austria-Hungary]]... And he loathed it for what? For its tolerance! He wanted eighty million Germans to rule with an iron hand an empire of eighty million ‘inferiors’—Czechs, Slovaks, Magyars, Jews, Serbs, Poles and Croats.
** [[w:Dorothy Thompson|Dorothy Thompson]], "Let the Record Speak", Boston: MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1939) p. 136 (newspaper column: “Write it Down,” February 18, 1938)
* Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight.
** [[w:Joseph Goebbels| Joseph Goebbels]], ''The New York Times'', “Hitlerite Riot in Berlin: Beer Glasses Fly When Speaker Compares Hitler to Lenin,” November 28, 1925 (Goebbels' speech Nov. 27, 1925)
* ''Herr Hitler är en förolämpning.''
** Mr. Hitler is an insult.
** [[w:Torgny Segerstedt|Torgny Segerstedt]] in ''Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning'' (3 February 1933).
** The article spurred [[Hermann Göring]] to [http://www.erixon.com/2/segerstedt.htm send a protest telegram] where he condemned the newspaper for its publication.
* Hitler is an atheist.
**[[w:Otto Strasser | Otto Strasser]], ''Hitler and I'', Boston: MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1940) p. 93
* Among the higher leadership [in the Nazi Party], while there is still a certain unity, personalities are beginning to play a constantly greater part. Hitler is perhaps more powerful than before, but he becomes more and more a figure separated from actualities. He depends a great deal on [[Rudolf Hess|Hess]], who is really his confidential man now and whom it is likely he may make Foreign Minister. [[Hermann Göring|Goering]] and [[Goebbels]] still remain good comrades of Hitler and are undoubtedly attached to him, but the difference between Goering and Goebbels are becoming more evident. Goering is more moderate, while Goebbels, sensing the feeling of the masses and being above all an opportunist is becoming more radical. If It would come to a show-down between the radical and moderate elements, Goering would, however, undoubtedly be likely to be on the radical side as the one having the more chances. [...] If this Government remains in power for another year and carries on in the same measure in this direction, it will go far towards making Germany a danger to world peace for years to come.<br> This is a very disjointed and incoherent letter. I am dictating it under pressure as I wish to catch the courier pouch. What I do want to say really is that for the present this country is headed in directions which can only carry ruin to it and will create a situation here dangerous to world peace. With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere. Others are exalted and in a frame of mind that knows no reason. The majority are woefully ignorant and unprepared for the tasks which they have to carry through every day. Those men in the party and in responsible positions who are really worth-while, and there are quite a number of these, are powerless because they have to follow the orders of superiors who are suffering from the abnormal psychology prevailing in the country.
** [[w:George S. Messersmith|George S. Messersmith]], U.S. Consul General at Berlin to the Under Secretary of State, William Phillips, [http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/6176 letter dated 26 June 1933]
* For what is healthy and what is sick, every people and age gives itself its own law, according to the inner greatness and extension of its existence. Now the German people are in the process of rediscovering their own essence and making themselves worthy of their great destiny. Adolf Hitler, our great Führer and chancellor, created, through the National Socialist revolution, a new state by which the people will assure itself anew of the duration and continuity of its history.... For every people, the first warranty of is authenticity and greatness is in its blood, its soil, and its physical growth. If it loses this good or even only allows it to become considerably weakened, all effort at state politics, all economic and technical ability, all spiritual action will remain in the end null and void.
** [[Martin Heidegger]], lecture at Frieberg University, August 1933; as quoted by Emmanuel Faye (2009), ''Heidegger, The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935'', Yale University Press, transl. Michael B. Smith, p. 68.
* You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought...
** [[w:Charles Goethe|Charles Goethe]], writing to a colleague about American eugenics inspiring Hitler and other Nazi officials (1934), as quoted by Edwin Black, "[http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php Eugenics and the Nazis: The California Connection]", ''The San Francisco Gate'', Nov. 9, 2003
* You [Hitler] may successfully resist any and all men, but you cannot successfully resist Jehovah God. . . . In the name of [[Jehovah]] God and His anointed King, Christ Jesus, I demand that you give order to all officials and servants of your government that Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany be permitted to peaceably assemble and without hindrance worship God.
** [[Joseph Franklin Rutherford]], cited in ''[[w:Awake!|Awake!]]'' magazine, 1995, 8/22, article: ''The Evils of Nazism Exposed''
** On February 9, 1934, J. F. Rutherford, the president of the Watch Tower Society, sent a letter of protest to Hitler stating these words. As the Nazi rage against Jehovah’s Witnesses reached new heights, the Witnesses’ denunciations became ever more scathing. The May 15, 1940, issue of Consolation stated: “Hitler is such a perfect child of the Devil that these speeches and decisions flow through him like water through a well-built sewer”.
* One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.
** [[Winston Churchill]], "Hitler and His Choice" in ''The Strand'' Magazine (November 1935).
* We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilisation will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation.
** [[Winston Churchill]], "Hitler and His Choice" in ''The Strand'' Magazine (November 1935).
* [W]hen Hitler says that “the State dominates the nation because it alone represents it,” he is only putting into loose popular language the formula of [[Hegel]], that “the State is the general substance, whereof individuals are but accidents.”
** [[w:Albert Jay Nock|Albert Jay Nock]], ''Our Enemy, The State'', Caldwell, ID, The Caxton Printers (1950) pp. 21-22, first published in 1935
*He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
** [[David Lloyd George]], A. J. Sylvester's diary entry (4 September 1936), Colin Cross (ed.), Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45 (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 148.
* I have never met a happier people than the Germans and Hitler is one of the greatest men. The old trust him; the young idolise him. It is the worship of a national hero who has saved his country.
**[[David Lloyd George]], ''Daily Express'', September 17, 1936.
*I have just returned from a visit to Germany. … I have now seen the famous German leader and also something of the great change he has effected. Whatever one may think of his methods — and they are certainly not those of a Parliamentary country — there can be no doubt that he has achieved a marvellous transformation in the spirit of the people, in their attitude towards each other, and in their social and economic outlook.<br>One man has accomplished this miracle. He is a born leader of men. A magnetic dynamic personality with a single-minded purpose, a resolute will, and a dauntless heart. He is the national Leader. He is also securing them against that constant dread of starvation which is one of the most poignant memories of the last years of the war and the first years of the Peace. The establishment of a German hegemony in Europe which was the aim and dream of the old prewar militarism, is not even on the horizon of Nazism.
** [[David Lloyd George]] As quoted in ''The Daily Express'' (17 November 1936).
* Hitler is a prodigious genius.
** [[David Lloyd George]], A. J. Sylvester's diary entry (7 July 1940), Colin Cross (ed.), ''Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45'' (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 275.
* You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring inconceivable misery upon our nation. Future generations will curse you in your grave for your action.
** [[w:Erich Ludendorff|Erich Ludendorff]] to [[w:Paul von Hindenburg|Paul von Hindenburg]] after he appointed Hitler to Chancellor as quoted in ''Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris'' by [[w:Ian Kershaw|Ian Kershaw]] (page 427).
* You protest, and with justice, each time Hitler jails an opponent; but you forget that [[Stalin]] and company have jailed and murdered a thousand times as many. It seems to me, and indeed the evidence is plain, that compared to the Moscow brigands and assassins, Hitler is hardly more than a common Ku Kluxer and [[Mussolini]] almost a philanthropist.
** [[H. L. Mencken]], in an open letter to [[Upton Sinclair]], printed in ''The American Mercury'', June 1936.
* I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.
** [[Winston Churchill]], "Mr. Churchill's Reply" in ''The Times'' (7 November 1938) This was in response to Hitler denouncing Churchill as a "warmonger".
* Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race and we are a race.
** Rabbi [[w:Stephen Samuel Wise|Stephen S. Wise]], (1938). “Dr. Wise Urges Jews To Declare Selves As Such.” ''New York Herald Tribune'', 13 June 1938. p. 12.
* In Germany the common people are peace-loving, ... The [[Devil]] has put his representative Hitler in control, a man who is of unsound mind, cruel, malicious and ruthless . . . He cruelly persecutes the Jews because they were once Jehovah’s covenant people and bore the name of [[Jehovah]], and because Christ Jesus was a Jew.
** [[Joseph Franklin Rutherford]], cited in ''[[w:Awake!|Awake!]]'' magazine, 1995, 8/22, article: ''The Evils of Nazism Exposed''
** On October 2, 1938, he delivered the address “Fascism or Freedom,” in which he denounced Hitler in no uncertain terms. Rutherford regularly took to the airwaves, delivering powerful lectures on the satanic nature of Nazism. The lectures were rebroadcast globally and were printed for distribution by the millions.
* There is no question but that '''Hitler belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man.''' As somebody commented about him at the last Nürnberg party congress, since the time of [[Muhammad|Mohammed]] nothing like it has been seen in this world. '''His body does not suggest strength. The outstanding characteristic of his physiognomy is its dreamy look.''' I was especially struck by that when I saw pictures taken of him in the Czechoslovakian crisis; '''there was in his eyes the look of a seer. This markedly mystic characteristic of Hitler's is what makes him do things which seem to us illogical, inexplicable, and unreasonable. … So you see, Hitler is a medicine man, a spiritual vessel, a demi-deity or, even better, a myth.'''
** [[Carl Jung]], During an interview with H. R. Knickerbocker, first published in ''Hearst's International Cosmopolitan'' (January 1939), in which Jung was asked to diagnose [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Benito Mussolini]], and [[Joseph Stalin]], later published in ''Is Tomorrow Hitler's?'' (1941), by H. R. Knickerbocker, also published in ''The Seduction of Unreason : The Intellectual Romance with Fascism'' (2004) by Richard Wolin, Ch. 2 : Prometheus Unhinged : C. G. Jung and the Temptations of Aryan Religion, p. 75.
* '''No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation — because he is speaking with 78 million voices.'''
** [[Carl Jung]], During an interview with H. R. Knickerbocker (1939), quoted in ''A Life of Jung'' (2002) by Ronald Hayman, p. 360
[[File:Destruction in a Berlin street.jpg|thumb|We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilisation will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the [[Germany|Great Germanic nation]]. ~ [[Winston Churchill]]]]
* The only man for whom Hitler had ‘unqualified respect’ was Stalin the genius’, and while in the case of Stalin and the Russian regime we do not… have the rich documentary material that is available for Germany, we nevertheless know since Khrushchev’s speech before the Twentieth Party Congress that Stalin trusted only one man and that was Hitler.
** [[w:Hannah Arendt | Hannah Arendt]], ''Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism'', A Harvest Book, 1985, pp. 7-8
* We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.
**[[Carl Jung]], The Symbolic Life, 1939.
* Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on others what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for foodstuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism.
** ''Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938'', [[w:Time (Magazine)|Time]]; January 2, 1939.
* The “Conqueror from Berlin,” as he has named himself, has completely conquered Germany. And not only that. Unfortunately, many, all too many Germans living abroad, also have fallen for the cunning propaganda.
** [[w:Friedrich Kellner|Friedrich Kellner]], ''[[w:My Opposition|My Opposition]]'', Diary entry of 24 October 1939.
* Hitler could not have succeeded against his many rivals if it had not been for the attraction of his own personality, which one can feel even in the clumsy writing of ''Mein Kampf'', and which is no doubt overwhelming when one hears his speeches. I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power—till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter—I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs—and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett's edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is there. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he ''can't'' win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme.<br>Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won't do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings ''don't'' only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably true of Stalin's militarised version of Socialism. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation "Greatest happiness of the greatest number" is a good slogan, but at this moment "Better an end with horror than a horror without end" is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.
** [[George Orwell]], [http://boingboing.net/2014/08/17/orwells-review-of-mein-kampf.html Review of ''Mein Kampf''] (March, 1940).
*Hitler didn't snub me; it was [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|our president]] who snubbed me. [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|The president]] didn't even send me a telegram.
**[[Jesse Owens]], as quoted in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-618-68822-7 ''Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics''] (2007), by Jeremy Schaap, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 211.
* Both anti-fascism and anti-communism have utterly lost their meaning since Hitler and Stalin have ceased to conceal their alliance from the world. […] I predicted the cooperation between the Nazis and Bolsheviks as early as 1925 in my article "Anti-Marxism."
** [[w:Ludwig von Mises|Ludwig von Mises]] ([1940], 1998). <I>Interventionism: An Economic Analysis</i>, trans. Thomas Francis McManus and Heinrich Bund, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. {{ISBN|1-57246-071-7}} p. xiv.
* Hitler does not have a new secret weapon at his disposal. He does not owe his victory to an excellent intelligence service which informs him of the plans of his opponents. Even the much-talked-of "fifth column" was not decisive. He won because the supposed opponents were already quite sympathetic to the ideas for which he stood. […]<br/> An ideological struggle cannot be fought successfully with constant concessions to the principles of the enemy. Those who refute capitalism because it supposedly is inimical to the interest of the masses, those who proclaim "as a matter of course" that after the victory over Hitler the market economy will have to be replaced by a better system and, therefore, everything should be done now to make the government control of business as complete as possible, are actually fighting for totalitarianism.<br/>The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism.<br/>Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital."
** [[w:Ludwig von Mises|Ludwig von Mises]] ([1940], 1998). <I>Interventionism: An Economic Analysis</i>, trans. Thomas Francis McManus and Heinrich Bund, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. {{ISBN|1-57246-071-7}} p. 88.
* German workers are the most reliable supporters of the Hitler regime. Nazism has won them over completely by eliminating unemployment and by reducing the entrepreneurs to the status of shop managers (Befriebsführer). Big business, shopkeepers, and peasants are disappointed. Labor is well satisfied and will stand by Hitler, unless the war takes a turn which would destroy their hope for a better life after the peace treaty. Only military reverses can deprive Hitler of the backing of the German workers.<br/> The fact that the capitalists and entrepreneurs, faced with the alternative of Communism or Nazism, chose the latter, does not require any further explanation. They preferred to live as shop managers under Hitler than to be "liquidated" as "bourgeois" by Stalin. Capitalists don't like to be killed any more than other people do. What pernicious effects may be produced by believing that the German workers are opposed to Hitler was proved by the English tactics during the first year of the war. The government of Neville Chamberlain firmly believed that the war would be brought to an end by a revolution of the German workers. Instead of concentrating on vigorous arming and fighting, they had their planes drop leaflets over Germany telling the German workers that England was not fighting this war against them, but against their oppressor, Hitler. The English government knew very well, they said, that the German people, particularly labor, were against war and were only forced into it by their self-imposed dictator.
** [[w:Ludwig von Mises|Ludwig von Mises]] ([1940], 1998). <I>Interventionism: An Economic Analysis</i>, trans. Thomas Francis McManus and Heinrich Bund, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. {{ISBN|1-57246-071-7}} p. 89.
* …we find an article in ''Harper's'' describing with a good deal of gusto the financial operations of the Hitler regime. We are told that we must not let the brutality of German political policy "divert our attention from the German financial program. <i>It is revolutionary and it is successful.</i>" The author then tells us that if we will look behind the dictatorship we may possibly find "clues to the nature of our own recent financial ills, indicating what has been wrong and <i>what can be done</i> to strengthen economic democracy now and in the future." The men who built this German system are called men of unquestioned genius. It is becoming clear that "Germany's internal financial program is removing the limitations of her financial environment on rates of productive activity. For years prior to the present war German industry operated at capacity. To do these things she is changing capitalism but she is not destroying it."<br>Of course there is nothing new about Hitler's financial operation, as anyone who has read the German chapter of this volume will remember. It is merely the adoption by Hitler of the spending and borrowing tactics of his predecessors, whom he so roundly denounced. Hitler was doing little more than Mussolini was doing, than the republicans and Social Democrats did before him in Germany, and what the old Italian and German Ministers did before the last war.
** [[w:John T. Flynn|John T. Flynn]] (1944) <i>As We Go Marching</i> Doubleday and Company, pp. 183-184, quoting "The German Financial Revolution," by Dal Hitchcock, <i>[[w:Harper's Magazine|Harper's Magazine]]</i>, Vol. 182, February 1941. Italics as in original
* At the outset of the German Government's movement against the Jews, an American visitor asked Herr Hitler why he was making it so ruthless. The Reichskanzler replied that he had got the idea from us. Americans, he said, are the great rope and lamppost artists [i.e., lynching] of the world, known of all men as such. He was using the same methods against the Jews that we used against the loyalists of ‘76, the Indians, the Chinese on the Western coast, the Negroes, the Mexicans, the Filipinos — every helpless people in fact whom we had ever chanced to find underfoot.
** [[w:Albert Jay Nock|Albert Jay Nock]], "The Jewish Problem in America," ''Atlantic Monthly'', June, 1941.
* '''If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'''
** [[Winston Churchill]], To his personal secretary John Colville the evening before Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941). As quoted by Andrew Nagorski in ''The Greatest Battle'' (2007), Simon & Schuster, pp. 150-151 {{ISBN|0743281101}}.
* Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorised into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia. The terrible military machine - which we and the rest of the civilised world so foolishly, so supinely, so insensately allowed the Nazi gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing - cannot stand idle lest it rust or fall to pieces. … So now this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation.
** [[Winston Churchill]], Radio broadcast on the German invasion of Russia, June 22, 1941. In The Churchill War Papers : 1941 (1993), W.W. Norton, pp. 835-836 {{ISBN|0393019594}}.
* I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.
** [[w:J. R. R. Tolkien|J. R. R. Tolkien]] ''The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien'' No. 45: To his son [[w:Michael Tolkien|Michael Tolkien]] (1941-06-09).
*"Progress" is for the convinced ochlocrats a consoling Utopia of madly increased comfort and technicism. This charming but dull vision was always the pseudoreligious consolation of millions of ecstatic believers in ochlocracy and in the relative perfection and wisdom of Mr. and Mrs. Averageman. Utopias in general are surrogates for heaven; they give a meager solace to the individual that his sufferings and endeavors may enable future generations to enter the chiliastic paradise. Communism works in a similar way. Its millennium is almost the same as that of ochlocracy. The Millennium of [[Lenin]], the Millennium of [[Edward Bellamy|Bellamy]], the Millennium as represented in H. G. Wells's, "Of Things to Come," the Millennium of Adolf Hitler and [[Henry Ford]] — they are all basically the same; they often differ in their means to attain it but they all agree in the point of technical perfection and the classless or at least totally homogeneous society without grudge or envy.
** [[w:Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn|Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]], writing under the pen name Francis Stewart Campbell (1943), <i>Menace of the Herd, or, Procrustes at Large</i>, Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, pp. 35-36.
* [Hitler is] a veritable <I>reductio ad absurdum</i> of "progressive" thought.
** Francis Stuart Campbell, pen name of [[w:Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn|Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]] (1943), <i>Menace of the Herd, or, Procrustes at Large</i>, Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, p. 159.
* It must be emphasized that an intensive study of national socialistic "prehistory" reveals a curious lack of original thought in Hitler's concepts; Hitler's strength consists solely in the clever use of <I>already existing</i> trends, ideas, and situations. It lies in the very nature of mass leaders that they cannot be "original"; the mass leader is necessarily a <I>virtuoso</I> of commonplaces which he may or may not repeat in the guise of a "new discovery." The modern dictator is not out to contradict but to confirm already existing views (and prejudices).
** Francis Stuart Campbell, pen name of [[w:Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn|Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]] (1943), <i>Menace of the Herd, or, Procrustes at Large</i>, Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, p. 201.
* So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!
**[[Joseph Stalin]], Said in April 1945 — On hearing of [[Hitler|Hitler's]] suicide, as quoted in [http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/zhukov1/22.html ''The Memoirs of [[w:Georgy Zhukov|Georgy Zhukov]]''].
* Adolf Hitler<br>I'm not worthy to speak up for Adolf Hitler, and to any sentimental rousing his life and deeds do not invite.<br>Hitler was a warrior, a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations. He was a reforming character of the highest order, and his historical fate was that he functioned in a time of exampleless [i.e., unequalled] brutality, which in the end felled him.<br>Thus may the ordinary Western European look at Adolf Hitler. And we, his close followers, bow our heads at his death.
** [[Knut Hamsun]], Norwegian author and Nobel Prize-winner, obituary of Hitler published in the May 7, 1945 evening edition of ''[[w:Aftenposten|Aftenposten]]''<ref name= NYT_2009-02-27> {{ cite news
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* Adolf Hitler was a [[Joan of Arc|Jeanne d'Arc]], a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.
** [[Ezra Pound]], in an interview with Edd Johnson, published in ''The Chicago Sun'' (9 May 1945)[http://www.jstor.org/view/00029831/dm990217/99p0266e/2?frame=noframe&userID=81ab3198@miami.edu/01cce4403700501c8a424&dpi=3&config=jstor]
* Every word that comes from Hitler's mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan. His mouth is the foul-smelling maw of Hell, and his might is at bottom accursed. True, we must conduct a struggle against the National Socialist terrorist state with rational means; but whoever today still doubts the reality, the existence of demonic powers, has failed by a wide margin to understand the metaphysical background of this war.
** The [[White Rose]], Fourth Leaflet.
* Freedom and honour! For ten long years Hitler and his coadjutor have manhandled, squeezed, twisted, and debased these two splendid German words to the point of nausea, as only dilettantes can, casting the highest values of a nation before swine. They have sufficiently demonstrated in the ten years of destruction of all material and intellectual freedom, of all moral substance among the German people, what they understand by freedom and honour. The frightful bloodbath has opened the eyes of even the stupidest German—it is a slaughter which they arranged in the name of "freedom and honour of the German nation" throughout Europe, and which they daily start anew.
** The [[White Rose]], Sixth leaflet.
* Shaken and broken, our people behold the loss of the men of Stalingrad. Three hundred and thirty thousand German men have been senselessly and irresponsibly driven to death and destruction by the inspired strategy of our World War I Private First Class. Führer, we thank you!
** The [[White Rose]], Sixth leaflet.
* He was a warrior, a warrior for mankind, and a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations.
** [[w:Knut Hamsun|Knut Hamsun]], upon hearing of Hitler's death.[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/khamsun.htm]
=== Quotes after the end of World War II ===
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[[File:Children headed for deportation.JPG|thumb|He set out to [[kill]] [[people]] not for what they did but for who they were. Even [[Mao]] and [[Stalin]] were killing their "class enemies." Hitler killed a million [[Jewish]] [[babies]] just for existing. ~ [[w:Nancy Gibbs|Nancy Gibbs]] ]]
[[File:Jane Kelly. Psychosis 1.jpg|thumb|[[James Branch Cabell|Cabell]] and Hitler did not inhabit the same [[universe]]. ~ [[w:Alfred Kazin|Alfred Kazin]] ]]
* By exploiting material wealth confiscated and plundered in a racial war, Hitler’s National Socialism achieved an unprecedented level of economic equality and created vast new opportunities for upward mobility for the German people.
** [[w:Götz Aly|Götz Aly]], ''Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State'', New York: NY, Metropolitan Books (2007) pp. 7-8
* Although some people felt [[w:Adolf Hitler|Adolf Hitler]] was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.
** [[Idi Amin]], as quoted in ''The Evil 100'' (2004) by Martin Gilman Wolcott, p. 78.
*'''Spiegel''': Can you also get your revenge on him by using comedy?
:'''Brooks''': Yes, absolutely. Of course it is impossible to take revenge for 6 million murdered Jews. But by using the medium of comedy, we can try to rob Hitler of his posthumous power and myths. In doing so, we should remember that Hitler did have some talents. He was able to fool an entire population into letting him be their leader. However, this role was basically a few numbers too great for him –- but he simply covered over this deficiency.
:'''Spiegel''': Was he a good actor?
:'''Brooks''': Yes, as he convinced many millions of Germans. It’s not without good reason that comedies about Hitler often concern actors who should play him. Just think about Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” (1940) or Ernst Lubitsch’s “To Be or not To Be” (1942). There’s no doubt about it, Hitler worked in the same branch as we do: he created illusions.
:'''Spiegel''': In a documentary film about the downfall of the German battleship the Bismarck, US director James Cameron referred to Hitler as the “greatest pop star of his time."
:'''Brooks''': There's something in that. Hitler must have had a magnetic attractive force, like a rock star he used his voice to spellbind umpteen thousands of listeners. So it’s only fitting when comic actors make him the limelight hog of world history. We take away from him the holy seriousness that always surrounded him and protected him like a cordon.
:* [[Mel Brooks]] [http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-interview-with-mel-brooks-with-comedy-we-can-rob-hitler-of-his-posthumous-power-a-406268.html Spiegel interview]
* In Hitler's eyes, Christianity was a religion fit only for slaves; he detested its ethics in particular. Its teaching, he declared, was a rebellion against the natural law of selection by struggle and the survival of the fittest.
** [[w:Alan Bullock| Alan Bullock]], ''Hitler: A Study in Tyranny''; Harper Perennial Edition (1991) p. 218. First published 1952
* Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him... Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.
** [[Pat Buchanan]], [http://www.realchange.org/hitler.htm column discussing John Toland's biography of Hitler] (1977).
* [Hitler] himself saw Christianity as a temporary ally, for in his opinion 'one is either a Christian or a German'. To be both was impossible. Nazism itself was a religion, a pagan religion, and Hitler was its high priest... Its high altar [was] Germany itself and the German people, their soil and forests and language and traditions.
** [[w:Geoffrey Blainey | Geoffrey Blainey]], ''A Short History of Christianity'', Viking (2011) pp. 495–6
* "Everybody thinks Hitler got to power because of his [[armies]], because they were willing to [[kill]], and that's partially true, because in the real world [[power]] is always built on the threat of death and dishonor. But mostly he got to power on [[words]], on the right words at the right time."
: "I was just thinking of of comparing you to him."
:* [[Orson Scott Card]] ''[[Ender's Game]]'' p. 131
* Try explaining Hitler to a kid.
** [[w:George Carlin|George Carlin]], from ''Brain Droppings''.
* But if you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability? Objections such as "these are not one-dimensional abilities" apply equally to cows, horses and dogs and never stopped anybody in practice. I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler's death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and forcing a child to take music lessons. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?
** Richard Dawkins, From the Afterword, The Herald Scotland, (November 20, 2006)
* What's to prevent us from saying Hitler wasn't right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question.
** [[Richard Dawkins]] [http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist "Richard Dawkins, the Atheist Evangelist", by Larry Taunton, ''byFaith'' (18 December 2007)]
* Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. … His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.
** [[Adolf Eichmann]], As quoted in "The Eichmann Memoir" in ''The Personalist Volume XLII'' (1961).
* Had Hitler died in middle of the 1930's, Nazism would probably have shown, under the leadership of a [[Hermann Göring|Goering]], a fundamental change in its course, and the Second World War might have been averted. Yet the sepulcher of Hitler, the founder of a Nazi religion, might perhaps have been a greater evil than all the atrocities, bloodshed and destruction of Hitler's war.
** [[Eric Hoffer]], ''The True Believer'' (1951) Ch.18 Good and Bad Mass Movements, §122
* The names of [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], and Hitler will forever be linked to the tragic course of European history in the first half of the twentieth century. Only weeks after the Russian Revolution the Bolsheviks created [[w:Cheka|secret police forces]] far more brutal than any that had existed under the tsar. The Nazis followed suit and were no sooner in power than they instituted the dreaded [[w:Gestapo|Gestapo]]. Under both regimes millions of people were incarcerated in concentration camps where they were tortured and frequently worked to death.
** [[w:Robert Gellately|Robert Gellately]], ''Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler : The Age of Social Catastrophe'' (2007).
* Hitler did a better job than Stalin of accomplishing Lenin’s totalitarian promises—better, too, than Mussolini,…
** [[w:François Furet | François Furet]], ''The Passing of an Illusion, The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century'', University of Chicago Press (1999) p. 205
* What was new about Hitler and Stalin was what Friedrich Meinecke, in an attempt shortly after World War II to express his horror at Hitler’s moral nihilism, called a ‘Machiavellianism of the masses’.
** [[w:François Furet | François Furet]], ''The Passing of an Illusion, The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century'', University of Chicago Press (1999) p. 191
* If all Hitler had done was kill people in vast numbers more efficiently than anyone else ever did, the debate over his lasting importance might end there. But Hitler's impact went beyond his willingness to kill without mercy. He did something civilization had not seen before. [[Genghis Khan]] operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging villages was the norm. Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of [[Beethoven]] and [[Goethe]] and [[Schiller]]. He set out to kill people not for what they did but for who they were. Even [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] and [[Stalin]] were killing their "class enemies." Hitler killed a million Jewish babies just for existing.
** {{w|Nancy Gibbs}}, as quoted in [http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/the_necessary_evil19a.html ''TIME''] magazine (3 January 2000).
* An extended chapter of our talk was devoted by the Führer to the vegetarian question. He believes more than ever that meat-eating is harmful to humanity. Of course he knows that during the war we cannot completely upset our food system. After the war, however, he intends to tackle this problem also. Maybe he is right. Certainly the arguments that he adduces in favor of his standpoint are very compelling.
** [[Joseph Goebbels]], Louis P. Lochner (trans.) (1993). The Goebbels Diaries. Charter Books. p. 679. ISBN 0-441-29550-9.
* I would have preferred it if he'd followed his original ambition and become an architect.
** [[w:Paula Hitler|Paula Hitler]] his much younger sister, during an interview with a U.S. intelligence operative in late 1945.
* I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.
** [[w:Traudl Junge|Traudl Junge]], Hitler's secretary.
* Of course, the terrible things I heard from the [[w:Nuremberg Trials|Nuremberg Trials]], about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn't able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame and that I hadn't known about those things. I wasn't aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for [[w:Sophie Scholl|Sophie Scholl]] in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out.
** [[w:Traudl Junge|Traudl Junge]] Hitler's secretary, in [[w:Im toten Winkel|''Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin'' (''Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary'')]]
* '''[[James Branch Cabell|Cabell]] and Hitler did not inhabit the same [[universe]].'''
** [[w:Alfred Kazin|Alfred Kazin]], ''On Native Grounds : An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature'' (1941), p. 231.
* After visiting these two places you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.
** The Post-War diary of [[John F. Kennedy]], as quoted in ''Prelude to Leadership'' (pages 73–74, last two paragraphs).
* If he (Hitler) does not eat meat, drink alcoholic beverages, or smoke, it is not due to the fact that he has some kind of inhibition or does it because he believes it will improve his health. He abstains from these because he is following the example of the great German, Richard Wagner, or because he has discovered that it increases his energy and endurance to such a degree that he can give much more of himself to the creation of the new German Reich.
** Walter C. Langer, "The Mind of Adolf Hitler", Walter C. Langer, New York 1972 p.54-55
* As far as Hitler is concerned, we regarded him as a true man. He was only a corporal when he earned the Iron Cross First Class in World War I. In those days that was quite an achievement. When he spoke at meetings or rallies he managed to captivate his audience. He was able to get us in a mood where we believed everything he said and we left fired with enthusiasms. Everyone I met respected and trusted Hitler and I myself shared these feelings and opinions.
** Standartenoberjunker [[w:Jan Munk|Jan Munk]] - SS
* Hitler ... was a hero, the hero-as-monster, embodying what had become the monstrous fantasy of a people, but the horror upon which the radical mind and liberal temperament foundered was that he gave outlet to the energies of the Germans and so presented the twentieth century with an index of how horrible had become the secret heart of its desire.
** [[Norman Mailer]], ''[http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3858/superman-supermarket/ Superman Comes to the Supermarket]. (November 1960)
* Five hundred years from now, it won't be Hitler we remember. Hitler may have set the century's agenda; he was a sort of vortex of negative energy that sucked everything else in. But I think God takes fallible human beings like [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] or Churchill and carves them for his purposes. In five centuries, we'll look back and say the story of the century was not Hitler or Stalin; it was the survival of the human spirit in the face of genocide.
** [[w:Martin E. Marty|Martin E. Marty]] in [http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/the_necessary_evil19a.html ''TIME'' magazine (3 January 2000)].
* Do you know that your Führer is a vegetarian, and that he does not eat meat because of his general attitude toward life and his love for the world of animals? Do you know that your Führer is an exemplary friend of animals, and even as a chancellor, he is not separated from the animals he has kept for years?...The Führer is an ardent opponent of any torture of animals, in particular vivisection, and has declared to terminate those conditions...thus fulfilling his role as the savior of animals, from continuous and nameless torments and pain. ”
** Neugeist/Die Weisse Fahne (contemporaneous pro-Nazi children's magazine)
* People ask me who my heroes are. I admire Hitler because he pulled his country together when it was in a terrible state in the early thirties. But the situation here [Vietnam] is so desperate now that one man would not be enough. We need four or five Hitlers in Vietnam.
** [[w:Nguyen Cao Ky|Nguyen Cao Ky]], July, 1965 interview with the Daily Mirror.
* When I came back to [[United States|my native country]], after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|the president]], either.
** [[Jesse Owens]], as quoted in [http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html "Owens Pierced a Myth"] (2005), by Larry Schwartz, ''ESPN SportsCentury''.
* When I passed the chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
** [[Jesse Owens]], as quoted in [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0399603158 ''The Jesse Owens Story''] (1970).
* Nazism and Fascism are thoroughly beaten, but I must admit that their defeat does not mean that barbarism and brutality have been defeated. On the contrary, it is no use closing our eyes to the fact that these hateful ideas achieved something like a victory in defeat. I have to admit that Hitler succeeded in degrading the moral standards of our Western world, and that in the world of today there is more violence and brutal force than would have been tolerated even in the decade after the first World war. And we must face the possibility that our civilization may ultimately be destroyed by those new weapons which Hitlerism wished upon us, perhaps even within the first decade after the second World war; for no doubt the spirit of Hitlerism won its greatest victory over us when, after its defeat, we used the weapons which the threat of Nazism had induced us to develop.
** [[Karl Popper]] in [[Karl_Popper#Utopia_and_Violence_.281947.29|"Utopia and Violence"]] (1947)
*Out of the mud and slime of lies, your holy red, white and black Swastika has been flung back into the skies in [[Virginia]], [[United States|United States of America]], and we pledge you our lives, Adolf Hitler, that we shall not flag or fail until we have utterly destroyed the forces of Marxism and darkness.
**[[w:George Lincoln Rockwell|George Lincoln Rockwell]], founder of the [[w:American Nazi Party|American Nazi Party]], dedication in his book ''This Time the World'' (1960).
*What people don't remember is that Hitlerism was about more than just militarism, nationalism, and consolidation of identity politics. It also involved a substantial shift in German domestic politics away from free enterprise, or what remained of it under Weimar, toward collectivist economic planning.
**[[w:Lew Rockwell|Lew Rockwell]], [http://mises.org/daily/3564 Headed to National Socialism], July 10, 2009.
* Before Hitler, we thought we had sounded the depths of human nature. He showed how much lower we could go, and that's what was so horrifying. It gets us wondering not just at the depths he showed us but whether there is worse to come.
** [[w:Ron Rosenbaum|Ron Rosenbaum]] in [http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/the_necessary_evil19a.html ''TIME'' magazine (3 January 2000)].
* I am a great admirer of Hitler, and I am not ashamed to say so! I do not say that I agree with all the methods he employed, but he was a wonderful organizer and orator, and I feel that he and I have several things in common.... What India really needs is a dictator who will rule benevolently, but with an iron hand.
** [[w:Bal Thackeray|Bal Thackeray]] http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/95/0922/nat5.html.
* Hitler is an outcome of [[Rousseau]].
** [[Bertrand Russell]]'', ''A History of Western Philosophy'', New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945, p. 685.
* Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Mecedonia. The curtain was rung on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon. In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, should it come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on an uninhabited planet.
** William L. Shirer, ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'' (1960), p. xii
* In retrospect, it is easy to see that the horrors inflicted upon the Jews of Germany on November 9 and the harsh and brutal measures taken against them afterward were portents of a fatal weakening which in the end would bring the dictator, his regime and his nation down in utter ruin. The evidences of Hitler's megalomania we have seen permeating hundreds of pages of this narrative. But until now he had usually been able to hold it in check at critical stages in his rise and in that of his country. At such moments his genius for acting not only boldly, but usually only after a careful calculation of the consequences, had won him one crashing success after another. But now, as November 9 and its aftermath clearly showed, Hitler was losing his self-control. His megalomania was getting the upper hand. The stenographic record of the Goering meeting on November 12 reveals that it was Hitler who, in the final analysis, was responsible for the holocaust of that November evening; it was he who gave the necessary approval to launch it; he who pressed Goering to go ahead with the elimination of Jews from German life. From now on the absolute master of the Third Reich would show little of that restraint which had saved him so often before. And though his genius and that of his country would lead to further startling conquests, the poisonous seeds of eventual self-destruction for the dictator and his land had now been sown. Hitler's sickness was contagious; the nation was catching it, as if it were a virus.
** [[William L. Shirer]], ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'' (1960), p. 435
* It was 3:30PM on Monday, April 30, 1945, ten days after Adolf Hitler's sixty-fifth birthday and twelve years and three months to a day since he had become Chancellor of Germany and instituted the Third Reich. It would survive him but a week.
** [[William L. Shirer]], ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'' (1960), p. 1133
*At the beginning of the twentieth century, few people would have suspected that a nation considered by many to be the most cultured, advanced and civilized would elect to power a homicidal maniac and allow him to seize total control of every institution in the country and every facet of the community. A man who maltreated, gassed and otherwise murdered millions of people based on their racial and ethnic background.
**[[w:Stefan B. Tahmassebi|Stefan B. Tahmassebi]], as quoted in [http://web.archive.org/web/20000816062011/http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/Tahmassebi1.html "Gun Control and Racism"] (1991), by S.B. Tahmassebi, ''George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal '', Virginia: George Mason University, p. 67.
* Hitler’s socialism was his own and subordinate to his secret aims. His concept of organized economy was close to genuine socialism but he would be a socialist only so long as it served the greater goal.
** [[w:John Toland (author)|John Tolan]] ''Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography'' New York: NY, Anchor Books—Doubleday (1976) p. 314
* It seems likely that more will be written about Adolf Hitler than about anyone else in history with the exception of [[Jesus]] [[w:Christ|Christ]]. … As long as people are fascinated by the range and depth of evil, Hitler will find readers, for he was the [[w:Moloch|Molech]] who devoured human beings in a regime that was "the negation of God erected into a system of Government."
** [[w:Robert G. L. Waite|Robert George Leeson Waite]], ''The Psychopathic God : Adolf Hitler'' (1993), p. xi.
* Was there no resistance to his disastrous projects? There was. But it was too feeble, too weak and too late to succeed... The fact is that Hitler was beloved by his people—not the military, at least not in the beginning, but by the average Germans who pledged to him an affection, a tenderness and a fidelity that bordered on the irrational... Winston Churchill was the only man of state who unmasked Hitler immediately and refused to let himself be duped by Hitler's repeated promises that this time he was making his "last territorial demand." … In his own "logic," Hitler was persuaded for a fairly long time that the German and British people had every reason to get along and divide up spheres of influence throughout the world. He did not understand British obstinacy in its resistance to his racial philosophy and to the practical ends it engendered... After [[Erwin Rommel|Rommel]]'s defeat in North Africa, after the debacle at Stalingrad and even when the landings in Normandy were imminent, Hitler and his entourage still had the mind to come up with the Final Solution. In his testament, drafted in a underground bunker just hours before his suicide in Berlin, Hitler returns again to this hatred of the Jewish people that had never left him. But in the same testament, he settles his score with the German people. He wants them to be sacked, destroyed, reduced to misery and shame for having failed him by denying him his glory. The former corporal become commander in chief of all his armies and convinced of his strategic and political genius was not prepared to recognize his own responsibility for the defeat of his Reich.
** [[Elie Wiesel]] in [http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/hitler.html ''TIME'' (13 April 1998)].
* Unlike [[Mussolini]] [Hitler] spurned the 'proletariat' and its Marxism, which was as bad as Christianity in his eyes, for it, too, was the faith of the downtrodden and the weak. In Vienna perhaps, certainly later in Munich, Hitler picked up, with a smattering of [[Nietzsche]], the opposite religion of the strong.
** [[w:Elizabeth Wiskemann|Elizabeth Wiskemann]] in ''[[w:The Rome-Berlin Axis|The Rome-Berlin Axis]]'' (page 13).
* ...crazy, tasteless even, as it may sound, the problem with Hitler was that ''he was not violent enough'', that his violence was not 'essential' enough...
** [[Slavoj Žižek]], ''In Defense of Lost Causes'' (2008), as quoted by Adam Kirsch, "The Deadly Jester", ''The New Republic'', December 2, 2008
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==Bronne==
*Norman H. Baynes, ed. ''The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922–August 1939'', Bande 1 en 2, Oxford University Press, 1942.
*John Cornwell, ''Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII'', Viking, 1999.
*Richard Steigmann-Gall, ''The Holy Reich: Nazi conception of Christianity, 1919–1945'', Cambridge University Press, 2003.
==Eksterne skakels==
{{Wikipedia|List of Adolf Hitler speeches}}
* [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/site-search?q=adolf+hitler Materiaal omtrent Hitler] by die ''Jewish Virtual Library''-webblad
* [https://calvin.edu/search/#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=adolf%20hitler Materiaal omtrent Hitler] by die ''Calvin College''-webblad
* [http://humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/speeches/speeches-hitler.html Toesprake deur Hitler by ''Humanitas International'']
* [http://www.hitler.org/speeches/ Hitler se toesprake]
* [http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/25points.htm Hitler se 25-punt nasionaalsosialistiese program]
* [http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/meinkampf/introduction.htm ''Mein Kampf'', in Engels vertaal by die Mondo Politico Library]
* [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.zip ''Mein Kampf'' vertaal by Project Gutenberg van Oostenryk]
* [http://wais.stanford.edu/Dictators/dictators_hitlermussolini.htm Leadership: Hitler en Mussolini]
* [http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/donovan/hitler 1943 Psigologiese profiel van Hitler] in oorlogstyd geskryf deur Dr. Henry A. Murray vir die sg. Kantoor vir Strategiese Dienste [1943 OSS Argiewe, DD247.H5 M87 1943]
* [http://samvak.tripod.com/hitler.html Beoordeling van Hitler as kwaadaardige narscis]
* [http://www.badley.info/history/Hitler-Adolf-Germany.biog.html Adolf Hitler Chronologie, World History Database]
*[http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/ Omvattende verslag van die opgang van Hitler en die Naziparty]
*[http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/statements.htm Stellings deur Hitler en senior Nazis aangaande Jode en Judaisme]
===Videos===
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-6H4xOUrs Adolf Hitler - Toespraak (1932)]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=eGhdX1SI3KY ''Triomf van die Wil'' (1935)]
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