It does not matter what you think, he exclaims, so long as you obey.
In 1914, I believe, the excitement in Berlin on the first day of the World War was tremendous. Today, no excitement, no hurrahs, no cheering, no throwing of flowers, no war fever, no war hysteria. The...
Hitler delivered petulant speeches that fall warning the outside world and particularly the British to mind their own business and to quit concerning themselves with the fate of Germans within the fro...
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...
Footnote to May 20.—Returning from Brussels to Aachen, we ran across a batch of British prisoners. It was somewhere in the Dutch province of Limburg, a suburb, I think, of Maastricht. They were herded...
Every person’s life is of importance to himself, of course: … But in the universe of infinite space and time, it is insignificant. … Perhaps Carl Becker, the historian, and one of the most civilized m...
Every morning the editors of the Berlin daily newspapers and the correspondents of those published elsewhere in the Reich gathered at the Propaganda Ministry to be told by Dr. Goebbels or by one of hi...
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...
BERLIN, June 18 It’s in the bag, signed today in London. The Wilhelmstrasse quite elated. Germany gets a U-boat tonnage equal to Britain’s. Why the British have agreed to this is beyond me. German sub...
At this meeting Ribbentrop also assured Ciano that Munich had revealed the strength of the isolationists in the U.S.A. so that there is nothing to fear from America.10 †
As an escape, I suppose, I read some Goethe letters this afternoon. It was reassuring to be reminded of the devastation of Germany that Napoleon wrought. Apparently Jena, near Goethe’s Weimar, was pre...
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...
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...
There was some ground for this appropriation of Nietzsche as one of the originators of the Nazi Weltanschauung. Had not the philosopher thundered against democracy and parliaments, preached the will t...
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...