Character Quote by Pat Buchanan

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

— Hermann Goring

“It is one of the great examples,” as Friedrich Meinecke, the eminent German historian, said, “of the singular and incalculable power of personality in…

— William L. Shirer

Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his…

— Albert Speer

The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only very rarely…

— Volker Ullrich

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

Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was…

— Ian Kershaw

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.

— Wilhelm Frick

Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the ordinary.

— Volker Ullrich

“Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of…

— Heinz Linge

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

— Rudolf Hess

Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.

— Volker Ullrich

[Adolf Hitler] had a very definite charm which enthralled most people who got to know him.

— Gretl Braun