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Quotes About Hitler

Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
~ Bill Bailey
It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.
~ Tariq Ali
Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, "often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination—by starvation and uneven combat" as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).94
~ James W. Loewen
Anyone of their age had already spent years in the Hitler Youth being trained to ridicule, taunt, and bully,
~ Jane Thynne
Even the famously unsporty Hitler liked to carry a riding whip in his hand.
~ Jane Thynne
The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.
~ E.L. Doctorow
If there is a god they need to come down to Earth and explain WWII, Hitler, bowel cancer, and Croc shoes.
~ Eddie Izzard
As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
~ Albert Ellis
The communications apparatus at headquarters was remarkable...It was possible to communicate directly with all important theaters of the war...They could be directed from Hitler's table in the situation room. The more fearful the situation, the greater was the gulf modern technology created between reality and fantasies with which the man at this table operated.
~ Albert Speer
Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no matter how inherently contradictory they may be and these inspirations were governed by extreme contempt and underestimation of the others.
~ Albert Speer
I do not think that in those early days of September, Hitler was fully aware that he had irrevocably unleashed a world war. He had merely meant to move one step further. To be sure, he was ready to accept the risk associated with that step, just as he had been a year before during the Czech crisis; but he had prepared himself only for the risk, not really for the great war.
~ Albert Speer
No campo, em todos os lados, os camponeses abandonavam os seus afazeres e as mulheres cumprimentavam com a mão. Era uma marcha triunfal. Enquanto o automóvel continuava a avançar, Hitler virou-se para me fitar e disse-me: "Até agora só um alemão foi celebrado desta forma, Lutero! Quando percorria o país, as pessoas apareciam em massa para o verem e para lhe darem as boas-vindas. Tal como a mim hoje!
~ Albert Speer
AMATEURISHNESS WAS ONE OF HITLER'S DOMINANT TRAITS. He had never learned a profession and basically had always remained an outsider to all fields of endeavor. Like many self-taught people, he had no idea what real specialized knowledge meant.
~ Albert Speer
The victories of the early years of the war can literally be attributed to Hitler's ignorance of the rules of the game and his layman's delight in decision making. Since the opposing side was trained to apply rules which Hitler's self-taught, autocratic mind did not know and did not use, he achieved surprises.
~ Albert Speer
Afterward Hitler sat alone with me in the bay window of the dining room, while the twilight fell. For a long time he looked out of the window in silence. Then he said pensively: "There are two possibilities for me: To win through with all my plans, or to fail. If I win, I shall be one of the greatest men in history. If I fail, I shall be condemned, despised, and damned.
~ Albert Speer
Ninety percent of all German combat deaths had in fact occurred fighting the Soviets, who had suffered and sacrificed most to defeat Hitler: an astounding 65 percent of all Allied fatalities.
~ Alex Kershaw
If personal vengeance were the only factor I could, as you suggested, go and stick a knife in him and finish it, but that would be accepting the intolerable doctrine that man's sole responsibility is to his ego. That was the doctrine of Hitler, as it is now of Malenkov and Tito and Franco and Senator McCarthy; masquerading as a basis of freedom, it is the oldest and toughest of the enemies of freedom.
~ Rex Stout
Pamela looked at his retreating back with admiration. He represented the backbone of Britain at this moment. A skinny, awkward bookworm, yet determined to keep going for as long as it took to defeat Hitler.
~ Rhys Bowen
Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?
~ Rick Riordan
Juliet could still remember when Hitler had seemed like a harmless clown. No one was amused now. ("The clowns are the dangerous ones," Perry said.)
~ Kate Atkinson
The riddle that was making the rounds was: "What is the difference between Hitler and Chamberlain? Answer: Chamberlain takes his weekend in the country. Hitler takes his country in the weekend.
~ Kati Marton
Alemania estaba transformada. Hitler había erradicado el desempleo, algo que ningún otro dirigente europeo había conseguido hacer.
~ Ken Follett
There were more police than Fascists. From inside one of the buses, a uniformed constable gave him the Hitler salute. Lloyd was dismayed. If all these policemen sided with the Fascists, how could the counterdemonstrators resist them?
~ Ken Follett
Texaco's chairman, the Hitler-admiring Torkild Rieber, was using the company's tankers to smuggle oil to the rebels in defiance of a specific request from President Roosevelt.
~ Ken Follett