Conviction Quotes by Ernst Hanfstaengl

It is probably not true to say that there was a physical homosexual relationship between [Rudolf Hess and Hitler] but the attraction was there.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers ... but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information. .... He was passionately…

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. [Later], under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model. .... Frederick the Great…

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

Anti-Semitism is not based on strictly religious grounds and is not directed against the Jewish faith as such. However, all German Christians resent and…

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner,…

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl