Censored Quote by William L. Shirer

“moment of declaration of war, if there”

— William L. Shirer

“This crude, cowardly bargain seems not to have unduly bothered Hitler. If Mussolini was personally attracted to him, as Ciano said, by “something deeply…

— William L. Shirer

“The confused locksmith Drexler provided the kernel, the drunken poet Eckart some of the “spiritual” foundation, the economic crank Feder what passed as an…

— William L. Shirer

Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued…

— William L. Shirer

“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come,…

— William L. Shirer

“And though the very name of the Nazi Party proclaimed it as “socialist,” Hitler was even more vague on the kind of “socialism” he…

— William L. Shirer

“The disillusion among the rank-and-file Nazis, especially among the S.A. storm troopers, who formed the large core of Hitler’s mass movement, was great. Most…

— William L. Shirer

“One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry."…

— William L. Shirer

“It never, however, drove him to the extremity of trying to find a regular job. As he makes clear in Mein Kampf, he had…

— William L. Shirer

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

— William L. Shirer

Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last…

— William L. Shirer

“One of the appalling aberrations of the German officer corps from this point on rose out of this conflict of “honor”—a word which, as…

— William L. Shirer