A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Beneath the pseudo-scientific terminology one can in each case recognize a phantasy of which almost every element is to be found in… — Norman Cohn Copy Share Image
If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on… — Alison Thompson Copy Share Image
“The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But… — Jean Bernard Copy Share Image
“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them… — Ernst Rohm Copy Share Image
“1. Mein Kampf does not contain the word "Nazi." 2. Mein Kampf does not contain the term “Third Reich.” 3. Mein Kampf… — Micky Barnetti Copy Share Image
The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today,… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
“In October 1941, Mahilue became teh first substantial city in occupied Soviet Belarus where almost all Jews were killed. A German (Austrian)… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Just because something is normal, does not make it morally justified. Case in point: Antisemitism in Nazi Germany.” — Narcissismus Decimus Maximus Copy Share Image
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“On Good Friday last year the SS found some pretext to punish 60 priests with an hour on "the tree." That is… — Jean Bernard Copy Share Image
No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
