8 Quotes by Ernst Hanfstaengl

Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

Schopenhauer had been Hitler’s philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.

The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it.

Hitler’s mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.