Adolf Hitler Quote by August Kubizek

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

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

— Gretl Braun

Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the…

— John Keegan

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

— Erich Fromm

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His…

— Hjalmar Schacht

Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching…

— Wilhelm Keitel

Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his…

— Albert Speer

[Interminable monologues] became an issue only late in [Adolf] Hitler's life. He became repetitive after the war started going badly in Russia. He wasn't…

— Gretl Braun

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

— Hermann Goring

“He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific…

— Theresa Breslin

“Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people’s most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.”

— Jessica Shattuck

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

— Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits