Accidents Quote by Ian Kershaw

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

Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went…

— Ian Kershaw

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

— Ian Kershaw

“In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing”

— Ian Kershaw

The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would…

— Ian Kershaw

Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.

— Ian Kershaw

Hitler was never a socialist.

— Ian Kershaw

Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a…

— Ian Kershaw

Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small…

— Ian Kershaw

“I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground…

— Ian Kershaw

Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.

— Ian Kershaw

In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured…

— Ian Kershaw