Quotes About Shirer

I found a book facing out that I'd always meant to read: William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.' About a third of the way through, I suddenly, finally caught up to the fact that Shirer had been there in Berlin, from 1934 on, and was finally kicked out when the U.S. entered the war.

albeit, like so many of the early Nazis, a homosexual

The Germans, if one may risk a generalization, have a weakness for blaming foreigners for their failures.

recognized that the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool [Dummkopf] I was!"15

All that serves to precipitate the catastrophe… is good, very good for us and our German revolution.

a nation comes into existence with its mythology… The unity of its thinking, which means a collective philosophy, [is] presented in its mythology; therefore its mythology contains the fate of the nation.