The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933, Hitler…

“The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933, Hitler boasted, would endure for a thousand years,9 and in Nazi parlance it was…

— William L. Shirer

If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then…

— Margaret Thatcher

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all…

— Winston Churchill

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.

— Wilhelm Frick

But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring…

— William L. Shirer

“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…

— William L. Shirer

Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last…

— William L. Shirer

“The confused locksmith Drexler provided the kernel, the drunken poet Eckart some of the “spiritual” foundation, the economic crank Feder what passed as an…

— William L. Shirer

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in…

— Volker Ullrich

My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her…

— Gretl Braun

“Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall,” the paratroopers liked to say. “He forgot to put a roof on…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

[Wilhelm] Bruckner was one of [Adolf] Hitler's adjutants, very close to him and he'd been in the party probably since day one. Personally neither…

— Gretl Braun

I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.

— Miriam Margolyes

Eva [Braun] loved [Adolf] Hitler and he was the only man in her life. She flirted and danced with other men but never would…

— Gretl Braun

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

— Joseph Goebbels