108 Quotes About Nazism

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore."

"Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard."

"With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself."

"A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero."

"… 在那些比較感性、隨波逐流、思想比較單純的人群當中，還普遍出現了一種較原始的神祕主義想法。那就彷彿一個被擊敗的部落拋棄自己乏善可陳的部落神祇，轉而信奉敵對部落的神明，將之做為自己的保護神。長久以來為人所信奉的聖馬克思並無助益，聖希特勒顯然要來得更為有力。於是我們把祭壇上的聖馬克思像搗毀，把聖希特勒的神像供奉上去。讓我們重新學習祈禱的方法，將「一切都是資本家的錯」更改為「一切都是猶太人的錯」。或許這麼一來我們就可以得到救贖。"

"The whole thing was a charade--the pomp, the ceremony, the goose-stepping. the salute--but the incredible cost was very real."

"Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy."

"Raus did not look up at the faces. An officer learned not to look at the faces. It was easier if you thought of them as bodies, as tools, means to an end. But just what the end was Raus could no longer say."

"There has been - and remains - a discussion whether or not the war formed Hitler most, but there can be no doubt that without it, and the decorations he received in it and which gave him - the Austrian - as Joachim Fest remarked, a claim to front-line credibility, respect and authority in Bavaria, his political career, at least in Germany - a country whose citizenship he would not acquire until 1932 - was simply inconceivable. In this sense only the war made Hitler possible."