Display Quote by John Keegan

[Adolf Hitler] was an emotional man, he had tremendous highs and he could get low as well, I've seen it.

— Gretl Braun

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Hermann Goring

“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

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

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

— Gretl Braun

Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

— Tim Wu

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 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

“Perhaps the difference between us was that he [Adolf Hitler] took things seriously which seemed to me quite unimportant. Yes, this was one of…

— August Kubizek

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

— Tim Wu