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Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties…

— Hermann Goring

“When I was in Berlin then, Nazism did not have the reputation it has now. Nazism? In every system in the world, you can…

— Robert Fisk

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could…

— Gustav Stresemann

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

“They had watched him make a masterwork of scapegoating Jews for Germany’s fall from power and persuade his followers that enlightenment, humanity, and tolerance…

— Jessica Shattuck

“Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the…

— Timothy Snyder

“It was not anti-Semitism or socialism or the New Order that first animated the Nazis; their first slogal was, "Break the chains of Versailles.”

— Milton Mayer

“I have often wondered since if anything could have stemmed the tide at that time. The students saw in the Nazi promises a rising…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“We have no quarrel with the German nation, One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep. But, generation after generation, They throw up…

— Anonymous

“More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible…

— Krista Tippett

“You could taste antisemitism everywhere; the air of Germany was permeated by it. All the unavoidable consequences of military defeat, revolution, a ruinous inflation,…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“That November, German authorities held parliamentary elections (without opposition) and a referendum (on an issue where the “correct” answer was known) to confirm the…

— Timothy Snyder