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> [Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/following-a-meeting-with-hitler-cardinal-michael-von-faulhaber-a-man/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

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## More by Ian Kershaw

> [Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/hitler-was-no-inexorable-product-of-a-german-special-path-no-logical/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/hitler-frequently-demonstrated-diffidence-and-unease-in-dealings-with/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/following-a-meeting-with-hitler-cardinal-michael-von-faulhaber-a-man/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/the-road-to-auschwitz-was-built-by-hate-but-paved-with-indifference/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [“In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/in-each-case-the-individuals-made-history-although-to-adapt-the/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/the-repeated-claim-before-the-seizure-of-power-that-the-nsdap-as-a/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/hitler-was-unapproachable-and-impenetrable-even-for-those-in-his/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [Hitler was never a socialist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/hitler-was-never-a-socialist/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/without-the-changed-conditions-the-product-of-a-lost-war-a-revolution/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [ Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the \[Munich\] putsch... Outside these small… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/within-the-nazi-party-the-beginnings-of-a-personality-cult-around/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [“I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/i-should-like-to-think-that-had-i-been-around-at-the-time-i-would/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/hitler-was-highly-secretive-not-least-about-his-personal-life-his/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

> [In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-kershaw/in-the-election-campaign-of-1930-hitler-seldom-spoke-explicitly-of/)

[Ian Kershaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-kershaw/)

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