Able Quote by Volker Ullrich

Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being…

— Primo Levi

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

— Idi Amin

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

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

— Tim Wu

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed…

— Gavriel David Rosenfeld

“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

“It may be easy with the retrospect of history to see how bad the Nazis were. But to grow up in the midst of…

— Rudi Wobbe

I think we have reached the point where we can state definitively, that Nazis are bad people.

— Jim Acosta

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

— Hermann Goring

“Germans adored Hitler; they invested their own egos in him and, after the war, they were unable to acknowledge the inhumanity of his ideals…

— Alexander Mitscherlich

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence…

— Winston Churchill