Cry Quote by A. J. P. Taylor

“Good for Germany, that’s what everyone said about Hitler and his band of murderous monsters. True, he’d returned Germany’s pride, but at what price?…

— Roberta Kagan

“When Hitler appealed to the German voters and asked for their trust, he could muster only one argument in his favour: his experiences in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people’s most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.”

— Jessica Shattuck

“Vote for me, Adolf Hitler, and I’ll restore Germany to its rightful glory.”

— C.W. Gortner

“Germans adored Hitler; they invested their own egos in him and, after the war, they were unable to acknowledge the inhumanity of his ideals…

— Alexander Mitscherlich

Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a…

— Ian Kershaw

“By giving Germans back a feeling of collective self-confidence, pride in their nation and themselves, a revived sense of community and the promise of…

— Michael FitzGerald

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

— Brent Scowcroft

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had…

— Max Schmeling

By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign…

— Erich Ludendorff

“It may be easy with the retrospect of history to see how bad the Nazis were. But to grow up in the midst of…

— Rudi Wobbe

“Germany’s emergence as a self-confident, non-aggressive, democratic power – not to speak of the humanitarian example it has set – is a pill too…

— John le Carré