“The Reformation is one root of the idea of human freedom and autonomy as it is represented in modern democracy. However, while… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“This was a particularly spectacular example of the German campaign to gather forced labor in the East, which had begun with the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It is their usual reaction; they employ not words and reasoned conversation or discourse to resolve problems, but the truncheon, the jackbooted… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself… — Christopher Hitchens 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
The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to… — Mary Fulbrook Copy Share Image
“What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A Nazi initiation into the upper reaches of the SS was to gouge out the eye of a pet cat after feeding… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's… — John Farndon Copy Share Image
Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's… — Alison Kitson Copy Share Image
“Under the guise of helping the sick, oppressed and hopeless, psychiatry is paving the way for authoritarian governments to suppress a whole… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image