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Quotes About Hitler

Liebkind: Hitler. There was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon. Two coats!
~ Mel Brooks
Dystopia is just someone's failed attempt at utopia. In a dystopian novel or movie, society is the bad guy, or at least one of the antagonists. In real life Nazi society was as much to blame as Hitler. There is usually a "shift" that  initiates this change, this shift can be anything from hunger ("Soylent Green"), to a tornado (the "Wizard of Oz") to a deadly virus (my story, "Apocalypse Conspiracy).
~ Unknown
Some of my family were persecuted by Hitler, a few, a pitiful few. My uncle, a priest, was martyred in Dachau. But most of my relatives were complacent, asleep, or frightened.
~ Unknown
We won the bloody war. Never again, we said. Then Hitler comes along and starts building his squadrons of panzers and fighter planes—purely for defense, he assures everyone, and we believe him. Even when he marches into the Rhineland we believe him. Two years later he's trampling all over bloody Austria, and now he's ripping Czechoslovakia to pieces. And still our Prime Minister says he trusts him!" His
~ Michael Dobbs
On 14 March the Czech President, Hacha, was summoned to Berlin. He was kept waiting while Hitler watched a film. At last, in the early hours of the morning, Hacha was marched into the room and told that in a few hours' time the Wehrmacht was going to invade his country.
~ Michael Dobbs
The fact is that the Communists are the forerunners of fascism," she wrote in 1933. "Neither Mussolini nor Hitler have made a single original step. All they had to do is follow and copy faithfully the steps taken by Lenin and Stalin.
~ Unknown
There's a rumour Hitler has killed himself.
~ Morris Gleitzman
Hitler believed in the Aryan ideology, but he wanted the betterment of the whole community and not that of an individual. Which terms contradict each other in themselves.
~ Unknown
Hitler wanted to transform Germany into a new Spartan nation and army. His only fault is to have sought expansion too, instead of being satisfied with what he had already acquired.
~ Unknown
In mid-1944 Hitler, increasingly deluded and desperate, proclaimed Axis victory was imminent. "Very soon I shall use my triumphal weapons, and then the war will end gloriously . . . Then those gentlemen won't know what hit them. This is the weapon of the future, and with it Germany's future is likewise assured.
~ Neal Bascomb
Diebner called another meeting of his "Uranium Club." This time Werner Heisenberg attended. Heisenberg was considered the leading light of German theoretical physics, particularly after Hitler's rise had forced Albert Einstein and other Jewish physicists to flee the country
~ Neal Bascomb
Hitler has missed the bus.
~ Neville Chamberlain
Sitting in the garden of Hitler's former classmates in Leonding, she visualized the beloved features of her Fuhrer suddenly merging into the impersonal Essence of the many-featured One, who spoke Krishna's words to Arjuna. She was certain that she had sought him for centuries, in life after life, until she realized that the founder of the Third Reich was indeed he— the one who comes back, whenever he should ''to establish the reign of Righteousness.
~ Unknown
It is clear from this that if Halifax and not Churchill had become prime minister, he would have wanted to seek accommodation with Germany, or at any rate considered peace terms if Hitler offered them. He would have had some support outside the cabinet. Some ministers would have followed him.
~ Unknown
Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another. Researchers have been trying for years to determine the precise nature of Bush's ties to Fritz Thyssen, the wealthy German industrialist who played a crucial role in bankrolling Hitler, as revealed in his 1941 memoirs I Paid Hitler. Thyssen ultimately repudiated the Nazi dictator and was himself imprisoned.
~ Oliver Stone
I think war is just part of human nature. And I'm fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn't make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I'm a Nazi, how come I married a woman who's half Jewish?
~ Ozzy Osbourne
one ever seems to actually do anything but talk. Watching the bureaucracy, it is easy to understand how Hitler was able to walk over Europe while the West dithered.
~ Pam Jenoff
On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn't be dismissed just because there's no Hitler in sight.
~ Paul Krugman
I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
~ Paul Robeson
On March 7, 1936, Hitler's army marched unopposed into the Rhineland, a demilitarized buffer zone between France and Germany. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull did not protest, and FDR went fishing.
~ Unknown
This war was only about greed, it seemed to me, and insanity. Adolf Hitler was a madman—everyone knew that—but he was also a child, a red-faced, angry baby bent on total dominion.
~ Paula McLain
This war was only about greed, it seemed to me, and insanity. Adolf Hitler was a madman—everyone knew that—but he was also a child, a red-faced, angry baby bent on total dominion. There had been a time, perhaps, when the world could have joined forces to stop him, but that had come and gone. Now, there was only a chance to temper the size of the catastrophe, to staunch the loss of lives, thrashing back against evil with torches or pitchforks.
~ Paula McLain
Radical leftists admit their admiration for the radical ideologies of Marxism and Democratic-Socialism. Marxism is the baby of Communism and a form of Democratic-Socialism that molded the manifesto for German Fascism under Hitler. When do we, who love religious freedom and free speech, say, "Enough is enough?" and how can anyone drain a swamp with more alligators than there is water?
~ Unknown
The Establishment Club was modelled on 'those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War'.
~ Peter Cook