The war is over: Hitler is devastated. The shock of defeat causes Hitler to relapse into full blindness. ibid.
His first public speech which was in October 1919 was a complete disaster. He addressed about a hundred and eleven people in a beer-house cellar, and he was completely humiliated. The audience was very hostile; he didn’t know how to control them. Dr David Lewis, author The Man Who Invented Hitler
I prophecy to you solemnly that this accursed man will take our Reich into the abyss. General Erich Ludendorff, to Hindenburg
Hitler for the first thirty years of his life was an opportunist. In 1919 he was given the greatest opportunity that is to enter politics. Politics came to Hitler; Hitler didn’t find politics. Professor Ian Kershaw
It seems he had much more humanity towards his dog than he did towards all the countless thousands of people who were dying all around him in this horrendous trench warfare. Professor Ian Kershaw
He was meant to be seen as the all-powerful all-knowing leader who prevailed over a system of total order. But the conflict between image and reality was quite a stark one because apart from it being a very orderly structure of command, in fact it was very disorganised and rather chaotic. It is a really quite remarkable system if you can call it a system at all of one where there is no collective government but yet where the head of state himself actually doesn’t spend all his time dictating. Professor Ian Kershaw
Many women, certainly younger women, had basically a crush on Hitler. Guy Walters, historian and writer
The drive, the vision, the thirst for power – what turned Adolf Hitler from an insignificant loser to the powerful and feared man in Europe? 7 Days that Made the Fuhrer, Channel 5 2013
He became one of many down-and-outs in Vienna. ibid.
He believed it was his destiny to lead the whole of Germany. ibid.
Fuhrer, command! We will follow! Crowd chant at Nazi rallies
Adolf Hitler is our saviour, our hero. He is the noblest being in the whole wide world. For Hitler we live. For Hitler we die. Hitler is our Lord. School-children’s song in class
We are rising up to face storms of battle. A hero’s death is our right. Hitler Youth song of death
Heavenly grace gave us the Fuhrer. We promise Hitler loyalty to the grave. Hitler Youth song
Yes, the flag is more than death. Hitler Youth song lyrics
Germans, free yourselves from Jewish domination. Germans, defend yourselves. Don’t buy from Jews. Nazi street song
I have listened to the boss. It was a kind of awakening. I listened to this voice and I knew that the messiah was in front of me. Joseph Goebbels, diary entry November 1925
Those big blues eyes like stars ... This man has all the qualities of a king. Joseph Goebbels, diary entry
Adolf Hitler I love you, because you are both great and simple. Joseph Goebbels, diary entry
The Fuhrer is feted like no other mortal has ever been. Joseph Goebbels
Magda is a little too friendly towards the boss. Joseph Goebbels
The madness of a frivolous era drove mothers from their posts as champions and custodians of the family. No wonder that when a man emerged, the champion of a new era, women, and above all mothers, instinctively supported him. Magda Goebbels, radio broadcast 14th May 1933
From the moment and I saw and heard him I was totally under his spell. Hermann Goering
Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million ... His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man. Adolf Eichmann, cited The Eichmann Memoir, 1961
The enormous strength radiated by the Fuhrer had shown quite clearly that we are all miserable little creatures compared to him. Grand Admiral Karl Donitz
We owe everything to the Fuhrer. The German people owe everything to National Socialism. Our soldiers have but one choice: to support our Fuhrer and our National Socialism with unrelenting effort. Grand Admiral Karl Donitz
He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see their behinds, that’s what he likes, especially when they’ve got big round ones. That’s Hitler’s sex life. What a man. Ernst Rohm, with Hitler present staring at him with compressed lips, cited Hughes’ ‘Getting Hitler into Heaven’
There were an awful lot of smart London people who thought that Mister Hitler was rather a good type. Had some clever ideas. Peter York, author Dictators’ Homes
Hitler had his own vision of a New World Order. Hitler had been promoted by the establishment. He graced the cover of Time magazine many times and had been their Man of the Year twice. Jason Bermas, Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined, producer Alex Jones, 2010
How did Adolf Hitler, an Austrian who came out of nowhere, succeed in conquering Germany? How did he sow the seeds of hatred and violence? Hitler’s Rise: The Colour Films, Channel 4 2013
‘The First World War was the most unforgettable and most sublime moment in my earthly existence’. ibid. Hitler’s Mein Kampf
He succeeded with the help of a racist sect: the Thule Society, named after a legendary Nordic kingdom. ibid.
The trial became an unexpected pulpit … The verdict was much less severe than Hitler feared. ibid.
The anti-Semitic Henry Ford strongly supported the Nazis. ibid.
What German playwright Bertolt Brecht called, ‘The resistible rise of Adolf Hitler.’ Hitler’s Rise: The Colour Films II, Channel 4 2013
Communists and Nazis clashed violently in all the elections that followed. ibid.
He [Hitler] had developed a passion for his own niece ... and she had just committed suicide. ibid.
1932: a week before the presidential elections Hitler brought together 100,000 Berliners. ibid.
13 million Germans had voted for him – a third of the electorate. ibid.
Hitler advanced by subterfuge. ibid.
To the sound of cheering democracy died in Germany. ibid.
In 1924 Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf – My Struggle – a book filled with hatred. Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler: The Menace, 2011
During the First World War Hitler learns utter disdain for the value of human life. ibid.
Hitler gradually becomes a fanatical nationalist. ibid.
Did Hitler himself have Jewish blood? One of the Nazi regime’s most closely guarded secrets is that he is unable to prove the opposite. ibid.
At eight he is an altar boy. ibid.
Hitler, transformed into a dyed-in-the-wool Bavarian, howls with the wolves against the November criminals – the signatories of the Armistice and the Versailles diktat. ibid.
He succeeds thanks to a racist sect – the Thule Society – named after a legendary Nordic kingdom. ibid.
[Erich] Ludendorff’s adhesion to Nationalist ideas opens up new perspectives for Hitler. ibid.
Hitler is released from prison on December 20th 1924 for good behaviour. ibid.
Ludendorff’s failure is what Hitler secretly desires as it disposes of his main rival. ibid.