Adjusting Quote by Albert Speer

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

— Hermann Goring

Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness…

— Pat Buchanan

Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and…

— Albert Einstein

[Adolf Hitler] tried to make people feel at ease, he made that effort.

— Gretl Braun

The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be…

— Carl Jung

[Adolf Hitler] had a very definite charm which enthralled most people who got to know him.

— Gretl Braun

“ Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the “higher power” of nature.”

— Erich Fromm

“he described Hitler as ‘a man of gigantic personality who, however, in the end assumed infernal powers’.”

— Ann Tusa

“It is one of the great examples,” as Friedrich Meinecke, the eminent German historian, said, “of the singular and incalculable power of personality in…

— William L. Shirer

Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such…

— William L. Shirer

Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.

— Volker Ullrich

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

— Alfred Jodl