Quotes from Roger Manvell

The Nazi leaders cannot be voided from human society simply because it is pleasanter or more convenient to regard them now as outside the pale of humanity.

Nazism was not merely a factor in the immediate past; it was a manifestation of a part of human nature, and it may recur at any time and in any place.

Reading was for him a narrowing, not a widening experience He saw himself as a teacher and reformer born to change the world.

He was a man of impulse, of lavish activity so long as his attention was fully absorbed; he disliked painstaking detail or following through the schemes that he originated with such undisciplined energy.

In the same way, he proudly accepted full responsibility for rebuilding the German Air Farce and, although he was not an economic expert, for rebuilding the German economy. Of the Air Force he said, "I alone was responsible and am responsible, for I was Commander in Chief of the Air Force and Air Minister.