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“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.”

— Marc Bloch

“[He] had seen firsthand the horrific results of appeasement. It was a path chosen by feebleminded people who were morally incapable of confronting evil.…

— Vince Flynn

“All that rational thinking had to be thrown out the window. This was why he liked irrational thinking so much better. It took less…

— Abigail Roux

“Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,”

— Erik Larson

“And though it would never be publicly admitted, they must also be brainwashed to adopt his ideology. Pure by blood, stripped of free will,…

— Joshua Levine

“This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world…

— Milan Kundera

“Hope, the proven ingredient of Nazi deception, was at its height.”

— Thomas Toivi Blatt

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

— Jessica Shattuck

“The Chancellor’s assurances were so satisfying and so unexpected that I think they are on the whole too good to be true,” Messersmith wrote.…

— Erik Larson

“But most- and worst- of all, as we and all the world slowly learned about the full extent of Hitler's Final Solution, we realized…

— Irmgard A. Hunt

“It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.”

— Erin Hart

“In the Hitler years we still believed in books enough to burn them. Imagine,”

— William T. Vollmann