“ We could see in our own country as late as the 1960's and 1970's how good Christian and Jewish men, the pillars of our society, when they acceded to political and military power, could sit calmly and… William L. Shirer
“ All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education William L. Shirer
“ Have we not reached a stage in history where no small nation is safe any longer, where they all must live on sufferance from the dictators? Gone are those pleasant nineteenth-century days when a count… William L. Shirer
“ Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ear… William L. Shirer
“ To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly charis… William L. Shirer
“ Coffee, ever since it became impossible to buy it in Germany, has assumed a weird importance in one's life. William L. Shirer
“ We broadcast from coast to coast every utterance of Hitler, but the German people are not permitted to know a word of what Roosevelt speaks. William L. Shirer
“ In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electro… William L. Shirer
“ GENEVA, July 5 Avenol, Secretary-General of the League, apparently thinks he’ll have a job in Hitler’s United States of Europe. Yesterday he fired all the British secretaries and packed them off on a… William L. Shirer
“ Most Germans, so far as I could see, did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their splendid culture was being destroyed and replaced with a mindless barba… William L. Shirer
“ But they were now on that April morning determined to use them—the first time and the last in the history of the Third Reich that the Jews resisted their Nazi oppressors with arms. William L. Shirer
“ The goose-step has always seemed to me to be an outlandish exhibition of the human being in his most undignified and stupid state. William L. Shirer
“ This of course was heresy to Hitler, who accused Otto Strasser of professing the cardinal sins of democracy and liberalism. William L. Shirer
“ The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933, Hitler boasted, would endure for a thousand years, William L. Shirer
“ When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendan… William L. Shirer
“ The Germans heard vaguely in their censored press and broadcasts of the revulsion abroad but they noticed that it did not prevent foreigners from flocking to the Third Reich and seemingly enjoying its… William L. Shirer
“ A Wilhelmstrasse official admitted to me today that the Germans had imposed forced labour on all Jews in Poland. He said the term of forced labour was only two years.16 A German school-teacher tells m… William L. Shirer
“ He was now convinced that Hitler had brought the movement to a dead end. The more radical followers were going over to the Communists. William L. Shirer
