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… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
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… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
“In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing” — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company. — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
“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… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family. — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
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… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share
