When Hitler attacked the Jews ... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was n...ot a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church--and there was nobody left to be concerned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me like ...an inevitable conflict within the next five years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ultimately the two men are united by their reaction to the French Revolution, for it was Rousseau's explosive concept of the Gener...al Will coupled with the breakdown of the social order which in the long run created both Emperor and Fuhrer. The former ensured the demolition of Christian Europe, while the latter completed it.... Napoleon saw himself as offering a via media between the ancien regime and the Terror. He claimed to have "cleansed" the revolution, combining with it what was best from the past, morally regenerated by Revolutionary ideals. Yet for all his protestations, he accepted the Revolution only because it made his career possible, and because those who had profited from it were ready to support his regime. Similarly, Hitler argued that he was steering a middle path between capitalism and Marxism. National Socialists claimed that their political and social programme had thwarted the machinations of international finance, while at the same time defeating the evil consequences of the French Revolution as embodied in its children--liberalism and, above all, Bolshevism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin--preludes, e...tudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have mor...e in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. ...It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock- scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true that this man was nothing but an elemental force in motion, directed and rendered more effective by extreme cunning and... by a relentless tactical clairvoyance .... Hitler was history in its purest form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument ...at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »