37 Quotes About Nazi-germany

  • Author John Strawson
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    The dilemma facing Hitler in 1923 was how to carry out a coup d'etat which could only hope to succeed with the army's tacit, if not explicit support, yet which must not be so dependent on the army that its fruits might be denied him.

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  • Author Sabastian Haffner
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    Über die Frontgeneration: die ewigen "gescheiterten Existenzen", die gerade die Schrecken und Zerstörungen des Krieges mit Jubel erlebten und erleben, als eine Rache an dem Leben, dem sie nicht gewachsen sind.

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  • Author William Dodd
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    Nothing more repulsive than to watch the country of Goethe and Beethoven revert to the barbarism of Stuart England and Bourbon France

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  • Author Erich Maria Remarque
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    Nad ei taha poliitikat. Nad tahavad usu aseainet. /--/ Nad tahavad jälle kedagi uskuda. Mida, on täitsa ükskõik. Sellepärast nad ongi nii fanaatilised.

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  • Author Gunter Grass
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    Y cuando el corredor dijo amén, allí estaba él, con la clara ventana frontal a la espalda, entre la secretaría y la dirección: él, el Gran Mahlke, pero sin ratón, porque llevaba en el cuello el singular objeto, el abretesésamo, el magneto, lo contrario de una cebolla, el trébol galvanizado de cuatro hojas, el engendro del buen viejo Schinkel, la golosina, el aparato, la cosa cosa cosa, el no-quiero-hablar-de-eso. ¿Y el ratón?

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  • Author William L. Shirer
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    To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly charismatic leader. They were to follow him blindly, as if he possessed a divine judgment, for the next twelve tempestuous years.

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  • Author William L. Shirer
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    The goose-step has always seemed to me to be an outlandish exhibition of the human being in his most undignified and stupid state.

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