It is one of the great examples, as Friedrich Meinecke, the eminent German historian, said, of the singular and incalculable power of personality in historical life.10 To some Germans and, no doubt, t...
I suppose every government that has ever gone to war has tried to convince its people of three things: (1) that right is on its side; (2) that it is fighting purely in defence of the nation; (3) that...
I miss the old Berlin of the Republic, the care-free, emancipated, civilized air, the snubnosed young women with short-bobbed hair and the young men with either cropped or long hair—it made no differe...
He could bear even less the disaster which befell his beloved Fatherland in November 1918. To him, as to almost all Germans, it was monstrous and undeserved. The German Army had not been defeated in t...
Despite all the terror and intimidation, the majority of them rejected Hitler.
But the fact remains that according to the testimony of one of his own Nazi followers in the column, the physician Dr. Walther Schulz, which was supported by several other witnesses, Hitler was the fi...
But certain difficulties lay in his way if he were himself to lead the counterrevolution, and he was not much interested in it unless he was.
All this was made clear enough to the assembled industrialists and they responded with enthusiasm to the promise of the end of the infernal elections, of democracy and disarmament.
They knew also that the Communist underground was directed from Moscow and served chiefly as an espionage source for the Russians.*
The Almighty had called upon him to do in this cataclysmic world and the philosophy, the Weltanschauung, that
Despite one’s inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. No on...
Who were these leaders? What was the strength of the storm troops they were throwing into the streets? And what exactly were they up to? I worked long hours those first weeks in Paris to try to find o...
What they then wanted was an authoritarian Germany which at home would put an end to democratic nonsense and the power of the trade unions and in foreign affairs undo the verdict of 1918, tear off the...
This government was Papen’s conception, his creation, and he was confident that with the help of the staunch old President, who was his friend, admirer and protector, and with the knowing support of h...
The revolt of July 20, 1944, had failed not only because of the inexplicable ineptness of some of the ablest men in the Army and in civilian life, because of the fatal weakness of character of Fromm a...
The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses...
The man with the Charlie Chaplin mustache, who had been a down-and-out tramp in Vienna in his youth, an unknown soldier of World War I, a derelict in Munich in the first grim postwar days, the somewha...
The individual, as well as the nation, can renounce only those things which are not vital. There you have German character stripped to the bone. A German cannot renounce vital things, but he expects t...
Since Kemal’s death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.
People are talking about the action of the British yesterday in sinking three French battleships in Oran to save them from falling into the hands of the Germans. The French, who have sunk to a depth b...