Hitler’s scholastic failure rankled in him in later life, when he heaped ridicule on the academic gentry, their degrees and diplomas and their pedagogical airs. Even
And though the very name of the Nazi Party proclaimed it as socialist, Hitler was even more vague on the kind of socialism he envisaged for the new Germany. This is not surprising in view of a definit...
The middle classes, grown prosperous by the belated but staggering development of the industrial revolution and dazzled by the success of Bismarck’s policy of force and war, had traded for material ga...
If the French had then marched into the Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even...
Contrary to the general opinion, he liked the company of women, especially if they were beautiful.
NUREMBERG, September 5 I’m beginning to comprehend, I think, some of the reasons for Hitler’s astounding success. Borrowing a chapter from the Roman church, he is restoring pageantry and colour and my...
LATER.—After seven days of almost ceaseless goose-stepping, speech-making, and pageantry, the party rally came to an end tonight. And though dead tired and rapidly developing a bad case of crowd-phobi...
As Gregor Strasser publicly boasted, All that serves to precipitate the catastrophe… is good, very good for us and our German revolution.
The skins of concentration camp prisoners, especially executed for this ghoulish purpose, had merely decorative value. They made, it was found, excellent lamp shades, several of which were expressly f...
No other party in Germany came near to attracting so many shady characters. As we have seen, a conglomeration of pimps, murderers, homosexuals, alcoholics and blackmailers flocked to the party as if t...
It grows more and more clear that his purpose is simply to use the National Socialist party as a springboard for his own immoral purposes, and to seize the leadership in order to force the Party onto...
Hitler, in turn, was enraged by the world reaction and convinced himself that it merely proved the power and scope of the Jewish world conspiracy. In
Mussolini and Ciano, in black Fascist uniforms, sauntered along behind the two ridiculous-looking Englishmen, Musso displaying a fine smirk on his face the whole time. When he passed me he was joking...
In Berlin, Stauffenberg and his confederates had at last perfected their plans. They were lumped under the code name Valkyrie—an appropriate term, since the Valkyrie were the maidens in Norse-German m...
As the year of 1931 ran its uneasy course, with five million wage earners out of work, the middle classes facing ruin, the farmers unable to meet their mortgage payments, the Parliament paralyzed, the...
To sum up these three years: Personally, they have not been unhappy ones, though the shadow of Nazi fanaticism, sadism, persecution, regimentation, terror, brutality, suppression, militarism, and prep...
Many of the books tossed into the flames in Berlin that night by the joyous students under the approving eye of Dr. Goebbels had been written by authors of world reputation.
In this period the Prime Minister had great confidence in the Fuehrer’s word, remarking privately a day or two later, In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the i...
If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, he finally said, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls!
He frequently lost all self-control and his language grew increasingly violent. In his intimate circle he now found no restraining influence.47