To us you [Hitler] are the guarantor of peace. ibid. Hess
A people that does not protect the purity of its race goes to seed. ibid. Streicher
It is our will that this state and this Reich shall endure through the coming millennia. ibid.
We want this people to be peace-loving but at the same time to be courageous. ibid. Hitler
The State did not command us, but it is we who command the State. The State did not create us, but we ourselves are creating the State. ibid.
For all time to come the party will be the source of political leadership for the German people. It will be unchangeable in its ideology. ibid.
We can state with satisfaction that this future belongs entirely to us. ibid.
The party is Hitler, but Hitler is Germany as Germany is Hitler. ibid.
Day after day flags raised. Buildings taken over. People shot. Newspapers banned. It is shocking how naked acts of violence, breaches of the law, barbaric opinions, appear quite undisguised as official degree. Victor Klemperer, literature professor
No-one ever knows when it will be his turn to be beaten or for what he must be beaten. Those who are beaten up in the camp usually do not say a word. Oranienburg prisoner 18 years old
Church bells ring. Children wave flags. There are daily parades. The people have become used to cheering. Even when there is no reason for it. It is reason enough that people who distance themselves from the Nazis are tortured to death daily with steel whips and electric drills. Better to celebrate. Howl with the wolves. Sebastian Haffner, author
In March 1933 a new chancellor of Germany is elected. He does not seize power with conspiracy. He uses no violence. He is elected according to the laws of German democracy. World War II: The Complete History
The Nazis used the emergency to suspend parliamentary democracy. And arrested and imprisoned all communists and socialist opponents. ibid.
It was a more ruthless new deal than Roosevelt’s. The destruction of trade unions making the manipulation of the economy easier than in America. The great parades of Nazism stupefying to the eye. A genuine expression of a nation willingly, gladly and gratefully marching symbolically and actually in step with the will of one man. ibid.
If the leading player on the stage of Europe was Hitler, the supporting character was Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The Italian fascists came to power many years before the German Nazis for reasons much the same. ibid.
From the very beginning of Nazism, from its earliest days, Hitler’s philosophy of National Socialism was a theory of history that explained the past and predicted the future. Hitler saw National Socialism’s destiny as confronting and destroying Soviet communism in the East. It was a fight to gain living space for the superior German race at the expense of the inferior Slavic people of Russia. World War II: The Complete History: The World Shall Hold Its Breath
Behind all the events of the war as it spread to every town and country in Europe there was a plan, there was a grand strategy that looked to history, to a destiny. ibid.
The 30th June 1934: the date German freedoms and the rule of civilised law died at the hands of Adolf Hitler. In the hours that became known as the Night of the Long Knives he murdered his way to dictatorship. Night of the Long Knives
On the evening of 27th February 1933 an arsonist’s fire destroyed the Reichstag. Hitler had the missing piece needed to set the stage for his epic massacre. Whether the perpetrator was the Dutch communist arrested and beheaded for the crime, or a team of Herman Goering torch-men, had never been clear. ibid.
As the death-count grew they may also have been covering up Hitler’s sexual history. Although evidence of sexual indiscretions by the Fuhrer had been murderously suppressed, always they were whispers. That he had been a male prostitute in Vienna and Munich as a youth. That he had been listed as such in Viennese police records. That his foppish mannerisms went suspiciously with his surrounding himself with practising homosexual companions and co-workers. ibid.
Kristallnacht begins the descent into the abyss of the holocaust. Days that Shook the World: Kristallnacht/Birth of Israel
All across the Reich the restraining grip of the law is being loosened. ibid.
All across the country windows are being smashed, synagogues and businesses burnt, homes ransacked in an orgy of destruction. ibid.
Germany has changed, and everyone knows it. ibid.
Kristallnacht – the Night of Broken Glass. ibid.
Hitler’s Reich Chancellery is at the centre of Nazi power. A building that symbolised the regime’s ambition for world domination. Inside Hitler's Reich, H2 2013
Why don’t they just kill us if that’s what they want? Dr Landau, Berlin Jew
For some time the British government has known the Duchess of Windsor was exceedingly pro-German in her sympathies and connections. And there is strong reason to believe that this is the reason why she was considered so obnoxious to the British government. They refused to permit Edward to marry her and maintain the throne. FBI papers released under Freedom of Information Act, cited Edward VIII: The Nazi King
The Duchess was obtaining a variety of information concerning official activities which she was passing on to the Germans. ibid.
After the war is over and Hitler has crushed the Americans we’ll take over. The British don’t want me as their king but I’ll be back as their leader. Duke of Windsor, attributed
A traitor peer and he was a convicted Nazi who had helped Hitler’s rise to power. Prince Charles Edward was a close blood relation to the newly crowned queen. Hitler’s Favourite Royal, Military Channel 2013
The most damning fact of all was his association with the Nazi extermination programme for the disabled and mentally ill. ibid.
His haemophiliac father prince Leopold died after falling down some stairs. ibid.
Charles Edward was branded a traitor-peer by an act of parliament. ibid.
Coburg became synonymous with the history of the Nazi party. ibid.
Charles Edward felt that in the Prince of Wales he had found a real ally. Both cousins shared an admiration of Hitler. ibid.
He now became embroiled in the darker side of the Nazi regime. ibid.
The Duke believes with certainty that renewed heavy bombing would make England ready for peace. German Ambassador, Lisbon
2001: An incredible discovery is made in the depths of a Bavarian lake. Nazi Temple of Doom: Revealed, Channel 5 2012
A secret obsession with the occult ... the Nazi Temple of Doom. ibid.
They plundered thousands of ancient artefacts: treasures and holy relics. ibid.
Divers discovered a gold cauldron ... Who made it and why? ibid.
At the heart of this regime was a powerful inner circle that wanted to promote the idea of a glorious Germanic history. ibid.
The Spear of Destiny ... seized on his [Hitler’s] express orders. ibid.
We knew when the people were dead because their screaming stopped. SS Lt-Col Rudolf Hoss, commandant of Auschwitz, evidence at Nuremberg
The SS had been organised by Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. Stewart Menzies
I did not spare money on my travel. Because I’d have to leave it in Germany anyway. To get out I had to pay next year’s taxes in advance even though I will not be in Germany at all. But no price is too much. This is a country to get out of even if you have to do it naked. Bella Fromm, society journalist
This remarkable newly discovered footage that we see here in such vivid colour was shot in Munich in 1939 just six weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War. Good Morning Mr Hitler, 1993
In May 1940, just eight months into war, MI5 and Special Branch swooped on locations in central London: their targets were members of the Right Club – an extreme pro-Nazi society led by aristocrats and Tory MP Archibald Ramsay. The Right Club wanted to bring down the British government and forge an alliance with Hitler. Churchill and the Fascist Plot, Channel 4 2013