William L. Shirer Quote
Nietzsche, like Goethe, held no high opinion of the German people,* and in other ways, too, the outpourings of this megalomaniacal genius differ from those of the chauvinistic German thinkers of the nineteenth century. Indeed, he regarded most German philosophers, including Fichte and Hegel, as unconscious swindlers. He poked fun at the Tartuffery of old Kant. The Germans, he wrote in Ecce Homo, have no conception how vile they are, and he came to the conclusion that wheresoever Germany penetrated, she ruins culture. He thought that Christians, as much as Jews, were responsible for the slave morality prevalent in the world;
William L. Shirer
Nietzsche, like Goethe, held no high opinion of the German people,* and in other ways, too, the outpourings of this megalomaniacal genius differ from those of the chauvinistic German thinkers of the nineteenth century. Indeed, he regarded most German philosophers, including Fichte and Hegel, as unconscious swindlers. He poked fun at the Tartuffery of old Kant. The Germans, he wrote in Ecce Homo, have no conception how vile they are, and he came to the conclusion that wheresoever Germany penetrated, she ruins culture. He thought that Christians, as much as Jews, were responsible for the slave morality prevalent in the world;
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About William L. Shirer
Shirer wrote more than a dozen books besides The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, including Berlin Diary (published in 1941); The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969), which drew on his experience living and working in France from 1925 to 1933; and a three-volume autobiography, 20th Century Journey (1976 to 1990).