William L. Shirer Quote

Women, whom Nietzsche never had, he consigned to a distinctly inferior status, as did the Nazis, who decreed that their place was in the kitchen and their chief role in life to beget children for German warriors. Nietzsche put the idea this way: Man shall be trained for war and woman for the procreation of the warrior. All else is folly. He went further. In Thus Spake Zarathustra he exclaims: Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip!—which prompted Bertrand Russell to quip, Nine women out of ten would have got the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women…

William L. Shirer

Women, whom Nietzsche never had, he consigned to a distinctly inferior status, as did the Nazis, who decreed that their place was in the kitchen and their chief role in life to beget children for German warriors. Nietzsche put the idea this way: Man shall be trained for war and woman for the procreation of the warrior. All else is folly. He went further. In Thus Spake Zarathustra he exclaims: Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip!—which prompted Bertrand Russell to quip, Nine women out of ten would have got the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women…

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About William L. Shirer

William Lawrence Shirer (; February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian. His Nazi Germany history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has been read and cited in scholarly works for more than 60 years; its 50th anniversary was marked by a new edition of the book.
As a young man just out of college, in 1925 Shirer was hired by the Chicago Tribune and later worked for the International News Service; he was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what became a CBS radio team of journalists known as "Murrow's Boys". He became well known for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II. Together with Murrow, on Sunday, March 13, 1938, he organized the first broadcast world news roundup, a format still followed by news broadcasts.
Shirer published 14 books besides The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, including Berlin Diary (published in 1941), The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969), several novels, and a three-volume autobiography, 20th Century Journey (1976 to 1990).