Top 32 Quotes About Third Reich
#1. It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.
Harry Elmer Barnes
#2. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation.
Hannah Arendt
#3. Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.
Leonard Gross
#4. But they were now on that April morning determined to use them - the first time and the last in the history of the Third Reich that the Jews resisted their Nazi oppressors with arms.
William L. Shirer
#5. From my own point of view, the fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of Christian superiority, except in technological terms. White
James Baldwin
#7. Winkler-Koch benefited directly from this project, which was designed to help enable the fuel policy of the Third Reich.
Jane Mayer
#8. The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.
Hjalmar Schacht
#9. The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no other nation was willing to take up that defense. Churchill was the greatest military, political and spiritual leader of the 20th century.
Victor Davis Hanson
#10. The Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich,
Anonymous
#11. Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.
Anthony Doerr
#12. We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#13. The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933, Hitler boasted, would endure for a thousand years,
William L. Shirer
#14. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer, Simon and Schuster, 1960, New York; Hitler, a Study in Tyranny, by Alan Bullock, Harper, 1953, New York;
Philip K. Dick
#15. The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness caused by Marxism - and has returned him to the ancestral Germanic values of honor, loyalty and courage.
Conrad Grober
#16. The pyromaniacs of the Third Reich were now playing their final scene on the stage of the world: they who had set the world aflame were now perishing in their own fires.
Miklos Nyiszli
#17. Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.
Richard Overy
#18. The Olympic games held in Berlin in August 1936 afforded the Nazis a golden opportunity to impress the world with the achievements of the Third Reich, and they made the most of it.
William L. Shirer
#19. There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.
Suzanne Fields
#20. A pastor who lived through the Third Reich described his meetings with Nazi officials in a way that illuminates life in totalitarian societies: "[O]ne would be pushed further, step by step, until he had crossed over the line, without noticing that his spine was being bent millimeter by millimeter.
Randall L. Bytwerk
#21. But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
Douglas Hurd
#22. Of all the things that made the Third Reich a modern dictatorship, its incessant demand for popular legitimation was one of the most striking.
Richard J. Evans
#23. Sure, I acted in films in the Third Reich, entertainment films, which distracted countless people inside and outside Germany from daily life during war.
Johannes Heesters
#24. The uncompromising pride of the Third Reich had been broken by the world-wide collaboration of people not avid of conquest, but of freedom.
Miklos Nyiszli
#25. In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.
Hannah Arendt
#26. The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.
Avro Manhattan
#27. Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
Arthur Bryant
#28. A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.
Guy Sajer
#29. One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( Dummkopf ) I was!
William L. Shirer
#30. By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.
Robert Reich
#31. It has been said that large staffs are the invariable sign of bad armies.
David Fraser
#32. I read Hesse's Steppenwolf thrice. The first time I was enchanted, the second time disappointed, the third time appalled.
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
