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[[folder:Quotes by Hitler]]

-> ''"I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker."''
-->-- After [[http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-profile-01.html the recoccupation]] of Rhineland.
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-> ''"If the war is lost, then it is of no concern to me. If people perish in it, I still would not shed a single tear for them, because they do not deserve better.\\
[[TheSocialDarwinist Life does not forgive weakness]].\\
[[BloodKnight I want war]]. To me all means will be right. My motto is not 'Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy.' My motto is 'Destroy him by all and any means.' [[WarIsGlorious I am the one who will wage the war]]! I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.\\
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In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses [...] in the primitive simplicity of their minds [...] more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."''
-->-- '''''Literature/MeinKampf'''''
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-> ''Conscience is a Jewish invention, it is a blemish like circumcision.\\
[[TheSocialDarwinist Providence shows no mercy to weak nations, but recognizes the right of existence-only of sound and strong nations]].\\
This Jewish communist annihilation of nations and its western European and American procurers can be met only in one way: by using every ounce of strength with the extreme fanaticism and stubborn steadfastness that merciful God gives to men in hard times for the defense of their own lives.\\
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The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie. It will at any rate be my supreme task to see to it that in the newly awakened NSDAP, the adherents of both Confessions can live peacefully together side by side in order that they may take their stand in the common fight against the power which is the mortal foe of any true Christianity.\\
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We have suffered so much that it only steels us to fanatical resolve to hate our enemies a thousand times more and to regard them for what they are--destroyers of an eternal culture and annihilators of humanity. Out of this hate a holy will is born to oppose these destroyers of our existence with all the strength that God has given us and to crush them in the end. During its 2,000-year history our people has survived so many terrible times that we have no doubt that we will also master our present plight.''
-->-- '''Final Radio Address'''
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->''"If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the revolution."''
-->--At his trial on 24 February 1924
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-> ''"I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work."''
-->-- Speech before the Reichstag, 1936
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->''"In a hundred years time, perhaps, a great man will appear who may offer them (the Germans) a chance at salvation. He'll take me as a model, use my ideas, and follow the course I have charted."''
-->--As quoted by UsefulNotes/JosephGoebbels in ''"Der Führer als Redner", Adolf Hitler. Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers'' (1936)
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-> ''"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."''
-->-- To Gen. Gerhard Engel in 1941
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->''"You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness? ... Once I have settled my other problem, I'll have my reckoning with the church. I'll have it reeling on the ropes."''
-->-- As quoted by Albert Speer in ''Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs''
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->''"Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar."''
-->-- ''Hitler's Table Talk''
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-> ''[[TemptingFate "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."]]''
-->-- Regarding Operation Barbarossa, his invasion of the Soviet Union
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->''"I do not want to see her any more."''
-->-- Recorded last words; who the "her" was is uncertain
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->''"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized."''
-->--(unsourced)
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->''"If you win, you need not have to explain. If you lose, you should not be there to explain!"''[[labelnote:*]]He wasn't there to explain.[[/labelnote]]
-->--(unsourced)
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[[folder:Quotes about Hitler]]
-> ''"[[{{Understatement}} Adolf Hitler was a very, very naughty man!]]"''
-->-- '''Narrator of educational video''', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
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-> ''"Adolf Hitler was one of the first rock stars."''
-->-- '''Music/DavidBowie'''
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-> ''"I have in this War a burning private grudge -- which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light."''
-->-- '''Creator/JRRTolkien'''
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->''"Adolf Hitler lied all the time. Yet he also said clearly what he was doing and what he planned to do. This is the essential paradox of Adolf Hitler."''
-->-- '''Benjamin Carter Hett''', ''Death of Democracy''
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-> ''"I must honestly confess that [[ThickerThanWater I would have preferred it]] if he had followed his original ambition and become an architect."''
-->-- '''Paula Wolff (née Hitler), Hitler's younger sister'''
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-> ''"One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''', 1935
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-> ''"I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend."''
-->-- '''Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary''', 1947
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-> ''"The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay.''"
-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/JosephGoebbels Goebbels's]] diary''', 1939
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->''"[Hitler] wasn't even honest toward his most intimate confidants... In my opinion, he was so thoroughly untruthful that he could no longer recognize the difference between lies and truth."''
-->-- '''Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk''', Germany's minister of finance from 1932 to 1945
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-> ''"Hitler had a deep-seated, lasting sense of revenge — something you don't come across in history too often."''
-->-- '''Ian Kershaw'''
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->''"Never in history has such ruination—physical and moral—been associated with the name of one man."''
-->-- '''Ian Kershaw'''
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-> '' By the time we’re speaking about, now in 1941 and ’42, of course you’ve got a momentum we’ve been talking about that’s built up of, in particular, the police apparatus which has its own momentum, but that momentum itself has come from a whole number of steps prior to that which Hitler has backed and approved of and ok’d at every stage and given his imprimatur to, given his authorisation to, has legitimised. So, as the head of the state he’s actually represented these policies which have been carried in that way, so in this sense you can, I think, truly say that Hitler was absolutely essential to the carrying out of the Holocaust. So Hitler is a necessary but not sufficient cause of the overall explanation but still you’d say or I would say ‘'''no Hitler no Holocaust'''.’''
-->-- '''[[http://ww2history.com/experts/Sir_Ian_Kershaw/Hitler_and_the_Holocaust Ian Kershaw]]'''
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->''"Adolf Hitler had nothing but contempt for the German people. This may sound surprising. Everyone knows that Hitler was an extreme nationalist. He dreamed of making Germany great again, expanding its wealth and its territory, and he sought to found an empire on the superiority of the Germans' human materiel. Were Germans not the master race? Yet, if you look carefully at Hitler's words, you notice that from the beginning of his political career to the end, he thought the German people were ignorant, weak, and foolish."''
-->-- '''Benjamin Carter Hett''', ''Death of Democracy''
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->''"He is but a solitary man\\
Whose prejudice will spread like a flame\\
Throughout the land\\
He's enslaving those who will be free\\
Etching his own name in black\\
For all of us to hear and see"''
-->-- '''Music/{{Anthrax}}''', '''"The Enemy"'''
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-> ''"Try explaining Hitler to a kid.''"
-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeCarlin'''
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-> ''"Hitler was a vegetarian and a painter. So he must have been, 'I can't get the fucking trees... Damn, I will kill everyone in the world!'"''
-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard'''
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->''"He appears to have been a nonentity, a psychological nullity, a hazy cloud of pedestrian neuroses, a reflex machine made of clockwork prejudices, a lazy fool, a windbag, a crashing bore, a plodder, a cold and self-involved man, a man with little capacity for any passion other than fury, and little in the way of emotional complexity. His reactions are [[HanlonsRazor utterly predictable]] once you've spent any time (so to speak) in his company."''
-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/blog/voluminous-description/ Jack Graham]]'''
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->''"He ended up in a ditch covered in petrol and on fire — and that's funny because he was a mass murdering fuckhead."''
-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard'''
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-> ''"You had to pinch yourself to realize that this was the man on whom the eyes of the world were riveted; that he alone held the lightning in his hands."''
-->-- '''Virginia Cowles''', after seeing Hitler at a rally
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-> [Germany doesn't need a] ''"heroic tenor but a real hero."''
-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Philosopher Oswald Spengler]]''', after meeting Hitler in 1933
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-> ''"And now it's springtime for Hitler and Germany\\
Winter for Poland and France\\
Springtime for Hitler and Germany\\
Germans go into your dance"''
-->-- ''Film/TheProducers'', "Springtime for Hitler"
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->''"So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him [[FateWorseThanDeath alive]]!"''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JosephStalin''', upon being informed of Hitler's suicide
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->''When I say I like Hitler I do not imply that he is a personally winning or temperately rational individual, but simply that he is an honest, ignorant man fighting bravely & blindly against the disintegrative forces which more educated & sophisticated people accept without adequate evidence as inevitable. His neurotic fanaticism, scientific addle-patedness, & crude gaucheries & extravagances are admitted & deplored — & of course it is quite possible that he actually may do more harm than good. One can scarcely prophesy the future.''
-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft''', in a letter to J. Vernon Shea, November 1933
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->"''I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss, and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.''"
-->--'''A letter of Gen. Erich Ludendorff to Pres. Paul von Hindenburg''', following the latter's appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany
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->''By far the stupidest thing done, not only in the last year, but in the last two or three centuries, was the acceptance by the Germans of the Dictatorship of Hitler — to say nothing of Goering.''
-->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton'''
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-> "What does the führer say to himself when he's alone? Does he say 'hail me'?"[[note]]Sounds in German just like "heil mich", which means "cure me"[[/note]]
-->-- '''Kid in a joke'''
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->''"Hitler. He's the worst criminal of all time."''
-->-- '''Kung Fury''', ''Film/KungFury''
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->''"Ignore him, he's a complete and total nutter! And he's only got one testicle!"''
-->-- '''Dave Lister''', ''Series/RedDwarf''
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->''If the countless blood-freezing facts about Adolf Hitler that several historians have established independently, there is one that keeps me awake more than any other. Not only did he “time” everything in anticipation of his own early death (he had always had morbid fantasies of illness and suicide), but, [[DeathSeeker at different moments, he actually told close associates that this was his explicit motive]]...This howling nihilist didn’t just need to destroy the Jews. He [[ItsAllAboutMe didn’t care if nobody outlived him]]. [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot In other words, there was no time at which a stiff political or diplomatic resistance, or an as­sas­sination backed by the High Command]], [[DroppedABridgeOnHim or even the toe of an Austrian construction worker’s cleated boot]], might not have made all the difference. Any of these could have [[PrecisionFStrike fucked him]], and the apocalyptic ­horses he rode in on. He was a homicidal maniac in a hurry, and terribly afraid that he might not make it.''
-->-- '''Creator/ChristopherHitchens''', ''[[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1999/02/hitchens-199902 Imagining Hitler]]''
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->''Now, I dislike the long-standing Leftist sympathies in western academia as much as anyone on the right, but the demonization of Hitler is more than just that.\\\
Hitler is the worst, even beyond [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]] and [[UsefulNotes/MaoZedong Mao]], not just because of his actions but what his actions represented. Before the war, Hitler did have western sympathizers, as opposed to the Soviets, who were only liked by academics and sycophantic European parties at the time, and represented the next step in the eugenic and racist theories that had been percolating in the West for half a century. He represented a good return of German glory, and some did feel guilty for what had been done to Germany after WWI.\\\
Hitler idealized and actualized, from these racial ideals, from his warped, fascist futurism, the industrial genocide of entire peoples and sub-sections of society. Barbarism, in the European mind, had originally been reserved for the duskier races, something that "enlightened", progressive (in the early 20th century sense), pro-eugenics Europe would never engage in. Hitler carried out a full-on industrial genocide, made distinct from any before or since through its methodical breadth and its industrial methods. Eastern Europe was placed under the jackboot of the Hun, who then proceeded to commit atrocities more lurid than any could imagine. These atrocities were justified by the logical ending point of pre-existing racial theories. The racial theories that had helped justify Europe's long history of imperialist violence.\\\
Hitler provided more than just atrocities. He created an acute and immediate identity crisis in the West. Countless scholars spent the late 40s, early 50s and beyond trying to explain and justify the horrors that had been uncovered in the camps. Stalin could be written off as [[DirtyCommunists typical Communist thuggery]], in a kind of "that's what you get" schadenfreude. Hitler had been seen, before all this, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity in a much less jaundiced light by many people]].\\\
Mao could not only be written off as a Communist, but as a latter-day Oriental despot unleashing terror on his people. Much the same could be said of African dictators or Pol Pot. In the Western mind, even as racism slowly eroded, it was to be expected that Africans, Asians, or the not-quite-European Russians would commit terrible atrocities and act like barbarians. Hitler was a clearly European man adapting modern, Western ideals on racial progress to his own militarist ends. Hitler led one of the venerable nations of Western Europe on a murderous spree of genocide and horror. Unit 731 could be written off, because the Japanese had already proven at Nanking their 'Oriental savagery'. The camps came from Europeans.\\\
Creating a country more evil than the Third Reich is not terribly hard. But we must understand the full extent of why the Third Reich was so terribly horrifying to the West. It was the logical conclusion of everything European jingoism had been justifying in the rest of the world for decades- but it was carried out on Europeans, not native peoples who "needed to be enlightened". It was like the outrage at Leopold's Congo, but amplified due to who was killed and how they were killed. No other genocide has had the industrial scope of the Nazis. And no other genocide, in Western eyes at the time, perpetrated colonial-style atrocities on Europeans.\\\
Other countries could be considered more evil, yes. But they might also be written off as "savages" or "dirty Reds" depending on the circumstance. Hitler's Germany created a unique moral crisis in the West, about race, colonialism, nationalism and a good number of other things. If World War I was the bloody climax of the second Imperialism, than World War II was its horrifying, mind-fucking conclusion.
-->--'''Brad Matthews''', ''Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom''

->''You wrote [[Literature/MeinKampf a little book]], got 'em fired up\\
Had a Beer Hall Putsch, got 'em fired up\\
And when your bunker started getting fired up,\\
You put a [[AteHisGun gun in your mouth]] and '''fired up.'''''
-->-- '''[[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]]''', ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''
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->''"I was writing speeches before you could read them! I was fighting battles when your only battle was to escape your mother's womb! I was conquering the world when your entire universe was your crib! And as for hiding in darkness -- I'' invented ''darkness!"''
-->-- '''Hitler's ghost''', ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E4HesAlive He's Alive]]"
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->''"Tomorrow, I will be damned by millions, but let them damn me, for it is my destiny."''
-->-- '''Hitler''', ''Film/{{Downfall}}''
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->'''Sawatzki''': {{History repeats itself}}. Again, you're trying to hoodwink people with your propaganda.
->'''Hitler''': Ah Sawatzki, you don't understand. In 1933, the people weren't hoodwinked by propaganda. A Fuher was elected, whose plans were clearly revealed. The Germans elected me.
->'''Sawatzki''': [[YouMonster You're a monster.]]
->'''Hitler''': Am I? Then you must also condemn all those who elected this monster. Were they all monsters? They were just ordinary people, who decided to elect an extraordinary man, and entrusted the fate of their nation to him. What would you do Sawatzki? Forbid elections?
->'''Sawatzki''': No. But I'd stop you.
->'''Hitler''': Have you never asked yourself why people follow me? Because at their core, they're just like me. They share the same values. [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil You can't get rid of me. I'm a part of you. All of you.]] And look, it wasn't all bad!
-->-- ''Literature/ErIstWiederDa''
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->(''set to scenes of far-right rallies and political violence'')
->''"Everything has a deeper meaning. All in all, the situation is ideal for me. In Germany, in Europe, and in the world. I can work with this."''
-->-- '''Hitler''', ''Literature/ErIstWiederDa''
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->''"Eva'''','' ''[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes auf wiedersehen]]!"''
-->--'''Hitler''' upon being killed, ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''
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->'''Gale:''' So, what you're essentially saying, what you feel is, and this is to choose another quote, that 'a healthy society must stop at nothing to cleanse itself of evil'?
->'''Hardin:''' Uh, yes, uh. I'd have to agree. Did I say that too?
->'''Gale:''' Oh no sir, that was Hitler.
-->-- ''Film/TheLifeOfDavidGale''
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