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“It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited…

— Hannah Arendt

“When Hitler appealed to the German voters and asked for their trust, he could muster only one argument in his favour: his experiences in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Hitler’s regime maintained its generally accepted authority in Germany almost until the bitter end. In fact, large parts of the population supported that regime…

— Geert Mak

“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

“It was Hitler’s style, his oratorical talents and his remarkable ability to transmit emotions and feelings in his speeches, that took him to the…

— Modris Eksteins

“They were too steeped in Hitler’s rhetoric, too cowardly, too implicated in the horrors of his war to reject him.”

— Jessica Shattuck

“Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people…

— Timothy Snyder

“It was known that he demanded, and received, a high fee for the many articles which he wrote in those days for the impoverished…

— William L. Shirer

“However, German Jews, especially the leaders, did not consider the Nazis a serious threat because they did not think Hitler would be elected. In…

— Agnes Grunwald-Spier

“There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and remake German…

— A.E. Samaan

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