Anthology Quote by Harry Elmer Barnes

“The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer.”

— Michael Finkel

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence…

— Winston Churchill

“Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse.”

— John Green

I found a book facing out that I'd always meant to read: William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.' About a…

— Erik Larson

I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was this insane…

— Nicholson Baker

“It may be easy with the retrospect of history to see how bad the Nazis were. But to grow up in the midst of…

— Rudi Wobbe

“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was…

— Adam Kirsch

“History was so quickly remade, and so successfully, that it can truly be said that the easterners did not feel then, and do not…

— Anna Funder

“Recounting the experience of individuals brings home, as nothing else can, the sheer complexity of the choices they had to make, and the difficult…

— Richard J. Evans

I've looked at all of Hitler's speeches thinking that there's gotta be one where he's 'I'm Hitler!', but there weren't any. His speeches were…

— Christopher McQuarrie

“Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a…

— Charlotte Rogan

“Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no…

— Albert Speer