First impression Quote by Erik Larson

“He came from plebeian roots and had failed to distinguish himself in any way, not in war, not in work, not in art, though…

— Erik Larson

“The autumn air is chill and damp. As he does each morning at just about this time, Adolf Hitler emerges from the artificial light…

— Bill O'Reilly

“Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.”

— Jane Sunday

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

“I asked, Did she know Adolf Hitler invented the blow-up sex doll? And Ms. Wright’s black sunglasses turned to look at me. During the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Vanderbilt sent me a series of picture postcards showing Hitler making a speech. The face was obscenely comic – a bad imitation of me,…

— Charlie Chaplin

“On my mental instant replay, I realized that obliquely comparing his family to the Nazis was maybe not my finest moment. He was quiet…

— Rebecca Makkai

“Like most people, I acquired my initial sense of the era from books and photographs that left me with the impression that the world…

— Erik Larson

“At the age of twenty, his artistic dreams frustrated, Hitler was a tramp: park benches, soup queues. Given just a little more talent, perhaps,…

— Martin Amis

“Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life; and…

— Knut Hamsun

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

“Before the war I often had the impression of being in the household of a busy architect and building tycoon rather than the Führer…

— heinz linge