Quotes About Reichstag

We worked and governed with incredible elan. We really ruled. For the bureaucrats of the Ministry the contrast to the Weimar Republic was stark. Party chatter in the Reichstag was no longer heard. The language of the bureaucracy was rid of the paralyzing formula: technically right but politically impossible.

William Shirer, witnessing the scene, the 600 Reichstag deputies, 'little men with big bodies and bulging necks and cropped hair and pouched bellies and brown uniforms and heavy boots, little men of clay in his fine hands, leap to their feet like automatons, their right arms upstretched in the Nazi salute, and scream "Heil's".

His goal was to secure approval of a law authorizing him to ignore the constitution, bypass the Reichstag, and govern by decree. He

His goal was to secure approval of a law authorizing him to ignore the constitution, bypass the Reichstag, and govern by decree.