Quotes About Hitler

Who was Hitler?' I said. Tyrena smiled slightly. 'An Old Earth politician who did some writing.

In terms of cost and effectiveness, the air force tenets were simply wrong. In any case, only Britain and America had really prepared themselves in the way of designing heavy bombers for long-range heavy bombardment. And this was not a response to Hitler's aggressions; it started well before Hitler came to power.

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Sage shakes her head. "Surely there were some Germans who were better than others, some who didn't want to go along with what Hitler said. If you can't see them as individuals—if you can't forgive the ones who ask for it—doesn't that make you just as bad as any Nazi?""No," I admit. "It makes me human.

if my parents had their doubts about Hitler's vision for Germany, they appreciated his optimism and the hope that our country could regain its greatness.

Are you a Bolshevik?' 'More an anarchist, I like to think. Anyway, I'm quite determined to bring down the settled order of British Society. Once I've dealt with Franco and Hitler that is.' She stood. 'Perhaps we'd better go in and have tea before you start the revolution.' Miller clambered to his feet. 'Ah, in this country even the revolution stops for tea,' he said.

Heil Hitler,' zei hij, wat, voor zover hij wist, een andere manier was om te zeggen 'Tot ziens en een prettige dag verder'.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

The Nazi goal of more living space (Lebensraum) applied pointedly to Poland, where Hitler had ordered his troops to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the Lebensraum

Hitler greatly admired Mussolini and aspired to become like him. Mussolini, Hitler said, was "the leading statesman in the world, to whom none may even remotely compare himself."3 Hitler modeled his failed Munich Putsch in November 1923 on Mussolini's successful March on Rome.

FDR did learn from both of them, and moreover, like Mussolini and Hitler, he had the economic catastrophe of the Great Depression to justify moving his country in a direction that the people would never ordinarily want to go.

Hitler didn't know a lot about America. He had never been to America. And he despised America. "My feelings against Americanism," he later said in 1942, "are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance." Why? He claimed, "Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaised and the other half negrified.

Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the Wild West, and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination—by starvation and uneven combat—of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity."9

Historian Ira Katznelson tells us, "Hitler denigrated blacks, admired American racism, and regretted the South's defeat in 1865.

At the same time, progressives began to redefine fascism and Nazism in such a way that they could project these evils onto the right, so that future generations would be bamboozled into thinking that the Republicans, not the Democrats, the conservatives, not the progressives, were in bed with Mussolini and Hitler in the critical decades leading up to global war and Holocaust.

Yet while lying about the Jews and plotting their destruction, Hitler accuses the Jews of lying and of plotting the destruction of Germany. Hitler employs the big lie even as he disavows its use. He portrays himself as a truth-teller and attributes lying to those he is lying about—the Jews. Could there be a more pathological case of transference, and specifically, of blaming the victim?

Even though JFK fought in World War II, he retained a soft spot for Hitler as late as 1945, when he described him as the "stuff of legends . . . Hitler will emerge from the hate that now surrounds him and come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures to have lived."36

In 1935, seven years before the Nazis fully implemented the Final Solution, Hitler advocated emigration and ghettoization as interim solutions to the Jewish problem. The Jews, Hitler said, must be "removed from all professions, ghettoized, restricted to a particular territory, where they can wander about, in accordance with their character, while the German people looks in, as one looks at animals in the wild."30

In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course. He was on again last night. He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.

One eventually had to confront it. Wasn't Hitler's own struggle to express himself in German the crucial subtext of his massive ranting autobiography, dictated in a fortress prison in the Bavarian hills? Grammar and syntax. The man may have felt himself imprisoned in more ways than one.

How is Hitler? Fine, solid, dependable.

These people without Hitler are not abnormal, not pervert[s], not geniuses," Kelley said. "They were like any aggressive, smart, ambitious, ruthless businessman, and their business happened in the setting up of a world government.

Truly evil persons do not recognize their own malevolence. They perceive themselves as generous, good-hearted, friendly sorts, who sometimes have to resort to unpleasant tactics for the general betterment of society. Even the historical monsters seem to have had no second thoughts about the damage they were causing. It was that way with Hitler and Oliver Moresby, just as it was with the Greer Avenue Strangler.