Ernst Hanfstaengl Quotes

#1. Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

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#2. It is probably not true to say that there was a physical homosexual relationship between [Rudolf Hess and Hitler] but the attraction was there.

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#3. With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

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#4. Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

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#5. Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

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#6. Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers ... but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information ... He was passionately interested in the Ku Klux Klan ... He seemed to think it was a political movement similar to his own.

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#7. Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.

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#8. If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it.

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#9. Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. [Later], under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model ... Frederick the Great was a man who knew when to stop [and] Napoleon did not.

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#10. In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.

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#11. The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

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