Heinz Linge Quotes

#1. laurig, shy of making decisions and happy to procrastinate.

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#2. I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment comparable to Olympius, legendary mount of the gods, but that alone can never have been the motivation for himto put down his private roots on Obersalzberg.

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#3. Wine tasted to him 'so sour' that he thought it could be improved 'with a spoonful of sugar'. Beer, as he often informed us, he had liked very much when he was young, but now he found it 'too bitter'.

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#4. How should those of us of no great education challenge him at table when he compared the efficiency of lions and camels and arrived at the conclusion that the carnivorous lion was far less efficient than the camel in the desert, which ate plants and grass.

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#5. His incredible memory did not desert him in this phase of his life. Mentally he was still a giant who overshadowed all around him.

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#6. Scarcely a general can be found amongst them who admits that he lost a battle by his own bad leadership.

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#7. twenty pfennigs per pound. Hitler

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#8. What people do in their beds', Hitler used to say, 'does not interest me so long as relationships do not prejudice the State and its leadership.' And he kept to that. Rumours

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#9. Hitler's ability to keep a secret was unparalleled.

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#10. Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.

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