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„Vergleichen Sie sich nicht mit anderen. Wenn Sie dies tun, beleidigen Sie sich.“

Adolf Hitler

„Wenn man eine große Lüge erzählt und sie oft genug wiederholt, dann werden die Leute sie am Ende glauben.“

Adolf Hitler

Variante: Wenn Sie eine Lüge erzählen, die groß genug ist und die Sie häufig genug erzählen, wird man sie glauben.

„Wenn du wie Sonne scheinen willst musst du zuerst brennen.“

Adolf Hitler

„Wenn du gewinnst, musst du nicht erklären … Wenn du verlierst, solltest du nicht da sein, um zu erklären!“

Adolf Hitler

„Ich kann nur für etwas kämpfen, das ich liebe. Ich kann nur lieben, was ich respektiere. Und um eine Sache zu respektieren, muss ich zumindest einiges darüber wissen.“

Adolf Hitler

„Sehr intelligente Menschen sollten sich eine primitive und dumme Frau nehmen. In meiner freien Zeit will ich meine Ruhe haben.“

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Zitate über Menschen von Adolf Hitler

„Was für ein Glück für die Regierenden, daß die Menschen nicht denken!“

Adolf Hitler

Quelle: am 18./19. Januar 1942 in der Wolfsschanze; Monologe im Führer-Hauptquartier 1941-1944. Aufgezeichnet von Heinrich Heim, herausgegeben von Werner Jochmann. Hamburg 1980, S. 213 books. google.

„Im allgemeinen soll aber nie vergessen werden, daß nicht die Erhaltung eines Staates oder gar die einer Regierung höchster Zweck des Daseins der Menschen ist, sondern die Bewahrung ihrer Art.“

Adolf Hitler buch Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

„Was für ein Glück für die Regierenden, daß die Menschen nicht denken! Denken gibt es nur in der Erteilung oder im Vollzug eines Befehls, wäre es anders, so könnte die menschliche Gesellschaft nicht bestehen.“

Adolf Hitler

am 18./19. Januar 1942 in der Wolfsschanze; Monologe im Führer–Hauptquartier 1941–1944. Aufgezeichnet von Heinrich Heim, herausgegeben von Werner Jochmann. Hamburg 1980, S. 213 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=_TUJAQAAIAAJ&q=befehls.

„Jede Propaganda hat volkstümlich zu sein und ihr geistiges Niveau einzustellen auf die Aufnahmefähigkeit des Beschränktesten unter denen, an die sie sich zu richten gedenkt. Damit wird ihre rein geistige Höhe um so tiefer zu stellen sein, je größer die zu erfassende Masse der Menschen sein soll. Handelt es sich aber, wie bei der Propaganda für die Durchhaltung eines Krieges, darum, ein ganzes Volk in ihren Wirkungskreis zu ziehen, so kann die Vorsicht bei der Vermeidung zu hoher geistiger Voraussetzungen gar nicht groß genug sein.“

Adolf Hitler

„Mein Kampf“ 1943, 851.–855. Aufl., S. 197

Adolf Hitler Zitate und Sprüche

„Niemand fragt den Gewinner, ob er Recht hat.“

Adolf Hitler

„Die erste Voraussetzung für den Erfolg ist die ständige und regelmäßige Anwendung von Gewalt.“

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Erfolg

„Nur der ist zur Kritik berechtigt, der eine Aufgabe besser lösen kann.“

Adolf Hitler

Rede am 1. Mai 1934 in Berlin, in: Max Domarus (Hrsg.): Reden und Proklamationen, 1932–1945, Bd. 1, S. 379

„Wahrheit benötigt Reinheit und einen klaren Verstand“

Adolf Hitler

Über Wahrheit

„Und kämpfen kann ich nur für etwas, das ich liebe, lieben nur, was ich achte, und achten, was ich mindestens kenne“

Adolf Hitler

Über Liebe

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„Denke tausendmal nach, bevor du eine Entscheidung triffst, und nachdem du eine Entscheidung getroffen hast, kehre nie um, selbst wenn du tausend Probleme bekommst!!“

Adolf Hitler

Entscheidung , Denken

„Die Natur ist wie immer der beste Ausbilder.“

Adolf Hitler

Über natur

„In unseren Augen da muß der deutsche Junge der Zukunft schlank und rank sein, flink wie Windhunde, zäh wie Leder und hart wie Kruppstahl.“

Adolf Hitler

Rede an die Hitlerjugend („Bei der Grundsteinlegung der H.-J.“) am 14. September 1935, in: Die Reden Hitlers am Parteitag der Freiheit 1935, S.57 Google Books https://books.google.de/books?id=WZ1CAAAAIAAJ&dq=Windhunde

Junge , Zukunft

„Polen hat nun heute nacht zum erstenmal auf unserem eigenen Territorium auch durch reguläre Soldaten geschossen. Seit 5 Uhr 45 wird jetzt zurückgeschossen! Und von jetzt ab wird Bombe mit Bombe vergolten! Wer mit Gift kämpft, wird mit Giftgas bekämpft!“

Adolf Hitler

Rede vor dem deutschen Reichstag, 1. September 1939, Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs, reichstagsprotokolle.de http://www.reichstagsprotokolle.de/Blatt2_n4_bsb00000613_00048.html

Nacht

„Ich las damals unendlich viel und zwar gründlich. In wenigen Jahren schuf ich mir damit die Grundlagen eines Wissens, von denen ich auch heute noch zehre.“

Adolf Hitler buch Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

Wissen

„Es wird stets nur ein Teil eines Volkes aus wirklich aktiven Kämpfern bestehen, und von ihnen wird mehr gefordert, als von den Millionen der übrigen Volksgenossen. Für sie genügt nicht die blosse Ablegung des Bekenntnisses: «Ich glaube»; sondern der Schwur: «Ich kämpfe!»“

Adolf Hitler

1930s

Über Glauben

„Wenn wir Sozialisten sind, dann müssen wir unbedingt Antisemiten sein.“

Adolf Hitler

Variante: Wenn wir Sozialisten sind, dann müssen wir unbedingt Antisemiten sein, dann ist das konträre Gegenteil der Materialismus und Mammonismus, den wir bekämpfen wollen.
Quelle: https://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1968_4_5_phelps.pdf S. 27

„[…] ich will auch gar nicht, daß Sie dafür stimmen! Deutschland soll frei werden, aber nicht durch Sie!“

Adolf Hitler

zur SPD–Fraktion nach der Rede von Otto Wels gegen das Ermächtigungsgesetz, Reichstagssitzung vom 23. März 1933, reichstagsprotokolle.de http://www.reichstagsprotokolle.de/Blatt2_w8_bsb00000141_00041.html

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„Jeder kann mit dem Sieg umgehen. Nur die Mächtigen können eine Niederlage ertragen.“

Adolf Hitler

„Wenn Menschenherzen brechen und Menschenseelen verzweifeln, dann blicken aus dem Dämmerlicht der Vergangenheit die großen Überwinder von Not und Sorge, von Schmach und Elend, von geistiger Unfreiheit und körperlichem Zwange auf sie hernieder und reichen den verzagenden Sterblichen ihre ewigen Hände!
Wehe dem Volke, das sich schämt, sie zu erfassen!“

Adolf Hitler buch Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

Vergangenheit

„Die Aufnahmefähigkeit der großen Masse ist nur sehr beschränkt, das Verständnis klein, dafür jedoch die Vergesslichkeit groß. Aus diesen Tatsachen heraus hat sich jede wirkungsvolle Propaganda auf nur sehr wenige Punkte zu beschränken und diese schlagwortartig so lange zu verwenden, bis auch bestimmt der Letzte unter einem solchen Worte das Gewollte sich vorzustellen vermag. Sowie man diesen Grundsatz opfert und vielseitig werden will, wird man die Wirkung zum Zerflattern bringen, da die Menge den gebotenen Stoff weder zu verdauen noch zu behalten vermag.“

Adolf Hitler

„Mein Kampf“ 1943, 851.–855. Aufl., S. 198

„Toter Feldherr, geh ein in Walhall!“

Adolf Hitler

Schlusssatz seiner Grabrede für Paul von Hindenburg, nach Konrad Heiden: Ein Mann gegen Europa, Zürich 1937, S. 85

tot

„Staatsautorität als Selbstzweck kann es nicht geben, da in diesem Fall jede Tyrannei auf dieser Erde unangreifbar und geheiligt wäre.“

Adolf Hitler buch Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

„Wenn in diesen kommenden Tagen und Wochen jeder Soldat an der Ostfront seine Pflicht tut, wird der letzte Ansturm Asiens zerbrechen, genauso, wie am Ende auch der Einbruch unserer Gegner im Westen trotz allem scheitern wird. […] In dem Augenblick, in dem das Schicksal den größten Kriegsverbrecher aller Zeiten Franklin D. Roosevelt von dieser Erde weggenommen hat, wird sich die Wende des Krieges entscheiden.“

Adolf Hitler

Tagesbefehl vom 15. April 1945; bei John Toland: Adolf Hitler. Bergisch Gladbach 1977, S. 1005. Auch zitiert bei Erich Kästner: Notabene 45 – Ein Tagebuch. Atrium Verlag Zürich 1961. S. 95 f.: Mayrhofen, 18. April 1945, s. DIE ZEIT 16. April 1965 http://www.zeit.de/1965/16/vor–der–hauptstadt–des–deutschen–reiches–verbluten

Über Schicksal , Über Krieg , Zeit

„Le Jeuden, des Dreugen, Au Frauden“

Adolf Hitler

„Ein einziger Erfolg muss den Kolonialherren zugestanden werden: Überall ist es ihnen gelungen, Hass zu erregen, einen Hass, der diese Völker, die von uns aus ihren Schlaf erweckt wurden, dazu drängt, sich zu erheben und uns zu vertreiben. Tatsächlich sieht es fast so aus, als wären sie nur zu diesem Zweck aufgewacht!“

Adolf Hitler

Über Hass , Erfolg , Schlafen

„Diese deutsche Volksgemeinschaft ist wirklich praktischer Sozialismus und damit Nationalsozialismus im besten Sinne des Wortes. Hier ist jeder verpflichtet, seine Ladung zu tragen.“

Adolf Hitler

Sinn

„Sie haben alles das, was mir fehlt. Sie erarbeiten das geistige Rüstzeug zu einer Erneuerung Deutschlands. Ich bin nichts als ein Trommler und ein Sammler. Lassen Sie uns zusammen arbeiten!“

Adolf Hitler

1922 zu Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, nach Rudolf Pechel: Deutscher Widerstand, Zürich 1947, S. 278, zitiert bei Fritz Stern: Kulturpessimismus als politische Gefahr, Scherz 1963, S. 284, 387 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=XjUiAQAAIAAJ&q=pechel, André Schlüter: Moeller van den Bruck. Leben und Werk, Böhlau 2010, S. 299 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=BV–eTEORhsoC&pg=PA299&dq=rüstzeug und Volker Weiß: Moderne Antimoderne. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck und der Wandel des Konservatismus, Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978–3–657–77146–2, S. 265 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=KLnvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA265&dq=rüstzeug

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„Während die Zionisten versuchen, den Rest der Welt glauben zu machen, dass das Nationalbewusstsein des Juden seine Befriedigung in der Schaffung eines palästinensischen Staates findet, betrügen die Juden die dummen Gojim erneut schlau. Es kommt ihnen nicht einmal in den Sinn, einen jüdischen Staat in Palästina aufzubauen, um dort zu leben. Alles, was sie wollen, ist eine zentrale Organisation für ihren internationalen Weltbetrüger, die mit ihren eigenen Hoheitsrechten ausgestattet und von der Intervention anderer Staaten ausgeschlossen ist: ein Zufluchtsort für verurteilte Schurken und eine Universität für angehende Gauner.
Es ist ein Zeichen ihres wachsenden Vertrauens und Sicherheitsgefühls, dass zu einer Zeit, in der eine Sektion noch den Deutschen, Franzosen oder Engländer spielt, die andere mit offener Unverschämtheit als jüdische Rasse hervortritt.“

Adolf Hitler

Sinn , Vertrauen , Über Glauben , Zeit

Adolf Hitler: Zitate auf Englisch

“All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!”

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1930s, From the film Triumph of the Will (1935)

“Our Italian ally has been a source of embarrassment to us everywhere. It was this alliance, for instance, which prevented us from pursuing a revolutionary policy in North Africa. In the nature of things, this territory was becoming an Italian preserve and it was as such that the Duce laid claim to it. Had we been on our own, we could have emancipated the Moslem countries dominated by France; and that would have had enormous repercussions in the Near East, dominated by Britain, and in Egypt. But with our fortunes linked to those of the Italians, the pursuit of such a policy was not possible. All Islam vibrated at the news of our victories. The Egyptians, the Irakis and the whole of the Near East were all ready to rise in revolt. Just think what we could have done to help them, even to incite them, as would have been both our duty and in our own interest! But the presence of the Italians at our side paralysed us; it created a feeling of malaise among our Islamic friends, who inevitably saw in us accomplices, willing or unwilling, of their oppressors. For the Italians in these parts of the world are more bitterly hated, of course, than either the British or the French. The memories of the barbarous, reprisals taken against the Senussi are still vivid. Then again the ridiculous pretensions of the Duce to be regarded as The Sword of Islam evokes the same sneering chuckle now as it did before the war. This title, which is fitting for Mahomed and a great conqueror like Omar, Mussolini caused to be conferred on himself by a few wretched brutes whom he had either bribed or terrorized into doing so. We had a great chance of pursuing a splendid policy with regard to Islam. But we missed the bus, as we missed it on several other occasions, thanks to our loyalty to the Italian alliance! In this theatre of operations, then, the Italians prevented us from playing our best card, the emancipation of the French subjects and the raising of the standard of revolt in the countries oppressed by the British. Such a policy would have aroused the enthusiasm of the whole of Islam. It is a characteristic of the Moslem world, from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific, that what affects one, for good or for evil, affects all.”

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17 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)

“One may regret living at a period when it's impossible to form an idea of the shape the world of the future will assume. But there's one thing I can predict to eaters of meat: the world of the future will be vegetarian.”

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Stenographic transcripts translated by Hugh Trevor-Roper Bullock, 11 November 1941, Alan (1993). Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives. Vintage. p. 679. ISBN 0-679-72994-1.
1940s

“Socialism as the final concept of duty, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one’s fellow man’s sake, and above all the principle: Common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned income. And we were aware that in this fight we can rely on no one but our own people. We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan, and there in the first place we hope for our own people and are convinced that socialism is inseparable from nationalism.”

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"Why We Are Anti-Semites," August 15, 1920 speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus. Speech also known as "Why Are We Anti-Semites?" Translated from Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 16. Jahrg., 4. H. (Oct., 1968), pp. 390-420. Edited by Carolyn Yeager. https://carolynyeager.net/why-we-are-antisemites-text-adolf-hitlers-1920-speech-hofbr%C3%A4uhaus
1920s

“Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.”

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Speech to officer cadets at the Berlin Sportpalast, 18 December 1940. [Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945 (English Volume III: 1939-1940), Domarus, Max, Max Domarus, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1997, 2162, 0865166277]
1940s

“We want this people to be faithful, and you must learn fidelity. We want this people to be obedient, and you must practice obedience. We want this people to be peace-loving but also courageous, and you must therefore be peace-loving and at the same time courageous. We do not want this people to grow soft, but we want it to be hard so that it will be able to withstand the hardships of life. And for this you have to harden yourselves in your youth. You must learn to be hard, to stand privations without breaking down. We want this people to love honor and you already in the days of your youth must live up to this concept of honor.”

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Speech (14 September 1935), quoted in Gordon W. Prange (1945). Hitler's Words. New York: American Council on Public Affairs, p. 124.
1930s

“In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch—the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs—was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.”

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1 August 1942.
Disputed, Hitler's Table Talks (1941-1944) (published 1953)

“In the past—that is, for most people it is still the present-the individual is everything, everything is directed at maintaining his life and improving his existence, everything focuses on him. … In socialism of the future, on the other hand, what counts is the whole, the community of the Volk. The individual and his life play only a subsidiary role. He can be sacrificed—he is prepared to sacrifice himself should the whole demand it.”

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Quelle: Disputed, Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant (1978), p. 16

“Only one thing could have stopped our movement – if our adversaries had understood its principle and from the first day smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.”

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Only partially true. The full quote:
Only one danger could have jeopardised this development – if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of these ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.
He thought that if his adversaries had ignored the ‘weakest’ elements of his movement, they would harm the party. See zuriz https://zuriz.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/smashing-the-nucleus/ for more.
Misattributed

“Whenever I stand up for the German peasant, it is for the sake of the Volk. I have neither ancestral estate nor manor… I believe I am the only statesman in the world who does not have a bank account. I hold no stock, I have no shares in any companies. I do not draw any dividends.”

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Speech to the Krupp Locomotive factory workers in Essen (27 March 1936), quoted in Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History (Hill and Wang), 2001, p. 246
1930s

“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”

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15 February 1945 — discussing the reasons for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)

“And today I stand by this same view. Fate, or Providence, will give the victory to those who most deserve it… And when now, after 10 years, I again survey this period, I can say that upon no people has Providence ever bestowed more successes than upon us. The miracles we have achieved in the last three years in the face of a whole world of enemies are unique in history, especially the crises we very naturally often had in these years.”

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Speech on the 19th Anniversary of the “Beer Hall Putsch” http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-speech-on-the-19th-anniversary-of-the-ldquo-beer-hall-putsch-rdquo-november-1942 (November 8, 1942)
1940s

“We want this people to be hard, not soft, and you must steel yourselves for it in your youth!”

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1930s, From the film Triumph of the Will (1935)

“The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated again and again.”

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This misquote could possibly have two possible sources: an abridged version of a paragraph in Mein Kampf regarding the Big Lie, or a report by the United States Office of Strategic Services about Hitler's psychological profile http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-profile-03-02.html. The second version is very close to an actual quote by Joseph Goebbels.
Misattributed
Variante: The bigger/more blatant a lie, the more people will believe it.

“I know that some Man capable of giving our problems a final solution must appear. I have sought such a Man. I could nowhere discover Him. And that is why I have set myself to do the preparatory work; only the most urgent preparatory work, for I know that I am myself not, the One. And I know also what is missing in me. But the other One still remains aloof, and nobody comes forward, and there is no more time to be lost.”

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As quoted in Warum? Woher? Aber Wohin? by Hans Grimm, p. 14
Other remarks

“The Folkish State, conversely, must under no conditions annex Poles with the intention of wanting to make Germans out of them some day. On the contrary, it must muster the determination either to seal off these alien racial elements, so that the blood of its own Folk will not be corrupted again, or it must without further ado remove them and hand over the vacated territory to its own National Comrades.”

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1920s, Zweites Buch (1928)

“This whole edifice of civilization is in its foundations and in all its stones nothing else than the result of the creative capacity, the achievement, the intelligence, the industry, of individuals: in its greatest triumphs it represents the great crowning achievement of individual God-favored geniuses, in its average accomplishment the achievement of men of average capacity, and in its sum doubtless the result of the use of human labor-force in order to turn to account the creations of genius and of talent. So it is only natural that when the capable intelligences of a nation, which are always in a minority, are regarded only as of the same value as all the rest, then genius, capacity, the value of personality are slowly subjected to the majority and this process is then falsely named the rule of the people. For this is not rule of the people, but in reality the rule of stupidity, of mediocrity, of half-heartedness, of cowardice, of weakness, and of inadequacy”

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Speech to the Industry Club (21 January 1932) as quoted in The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922 – August 1939 (1994) by Norman Hepburn Baynes, Oxford University Press, p.783
1930s

“There can be but one German Youth Movement, because there is but one way in which German youth can be educated and trained… This Reich stands, and is building itself up anew, upon its youth. And this Reich will hand over its youth to no one, but will take its education and its formation upon itself.”

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Speech on May 1, 1937, quoted in John S. Conway, The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-45 (New York, NY, Basic Books, 1968), p. 178
1930s

“In my eyes, the year 1942 already has behind it the most fateful trial of our people. That was the winter of '41 to '42. I may be permitted to say that in that winter the German people, and in particular its Wehrmacht, were weighed in the balance by Providence. Nothing worse can or will happen. That we conquered that winter, that "General Winter," that at last the German fronts stood, and that this spring, that is, early this summer, we were able to proceed again, that, I believe, is the proof that Providence was content with the German people… You do not realize what is hidden beneath these words in the way of human heroism, and also of human pain, and suffering, and we may say, often anxiety too, naturally, deathly anxiety on the part of all those who, especially for the first time, are placed before the trial of God in this highest court.”

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Address at the Opening of the Winter Relief Campaign http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-address-at-the-opening-of-the-winter-relief-campaign-september-1942 (September 30, 1942)
1940s

“If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation (Russia). Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed.”

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To Albert Speer (1945), as quoted in "Defeat of Hitler: Enter the Bunker" http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/enter-bunker.htm (2010), The History Place
1940s

“Everyone was at one time a Social Democrat.”

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As quoted in Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen 1905-1924, Eberhard Jäckel and Axel Kuhn, (editors) Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1980, p. 448 (quote from 1921)
1920s

“One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.”

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on the Passion Play at Oberammergau, 5 July 1942.
Disputed, (1941-1944) (published 1953)

“We reject the political aims of the industrialists.”

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Speech at the May 1927 NSDAP provincial congress in Stuttgart. Dietrich Orlow, The Nazi Party 1919-1945: A Complete History, Enigma Books (2010) p. 61
1920s, Zweites Buch (1928)

“What matters is to emphasize the fundamental idea in my party's economic program clearly; the idea of authority. I want the authority; I want everyone to keep the property he has acquired for himself according to the principle: Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.”

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In 1931, as quoted in Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy https://books.google.com/books?id=kp3p_sIk8h8C&pg=PA303 (1990), by Avraham Barkai, pp. 26–27
1930s

“But we National Socialists wish precisely to attract all socialists, even the Communists; we wish to win them over from their international camp to the national one.”

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Quelle: Disputed, Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant (1978), p. 26

“The war is lost!”

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Regarding the fate of World War II (1945), as quoted in "Defeat of Hitler: Enter the Bunker" http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/enter-bunker.htm (2010), The History Place
1940s

“Late you come, yet you do come!... You should have recognized the beneficial power of criticism when we were in the opposition. Back then, you had not yet been confronted with these words; back then our press was verboten and verboten and again verboten; our assemblies were banned; we were not allowed to speak, and I was not allowed to speak -- and that went on for years! And now you say criticism is beneficial!”

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Speech in the Reichstag (23 March 1933) on the passing of the Enabling Act of 1933. Hitler is responding to Otto Wels, leader of the Social Democrats, who had made a speech in favour of "criticism", i.e. freedom of political opposition.
Hitler opens his response with a quotation from Schiller, "Spät kommt ihr, doch ihr kommt!"
1930s
Quelle: http://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports2013/hitlerenablingact.htm
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“I purchase the necessities of life with the productive power of German workmen. The results of our economic policy speak for us, not for the gold standard people. For we, the poor have abolished unemployment because we no longer pay homage to this madness, because we regard our entire economic existence as a production problem and no longer as a capitalistic problem. We placed the whole organized strength of the nation, the discipline of the entire nation, behind our economic policy. We explained to the nation that it was madness to wage internal economic wars between the various classes, in which they all perish together.”

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Adolf Hitler

Speech on the “21st Anniversary of the National Socialist Party” https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_Speech_on_the_21st_Anniversary_of_the_National_Socialist_Party_(24_February_1941) (24 February 1941)
1940s

“Then the spirits of our fallen comrades shall rise from their graves to thank all those whose courage and loyalty have now once more atoned for the sins committed in an hour of weakness against them and against our Volk. Let our avowal of faith on this day be a solemn oath: the war forced upon the Greater German Reich by the capitalist rulers of France and England must be transformed into the most glorious victory in German history!”

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Adolf Hitler

Speech in the Berlin Zeughaus http://www.nommeraadio.ee/meedia/pdf/RRS/Adolf%20Hitler%20-%20Collection%20of%20Speeches%20-%201922-1945.pdf (March 10, 1940) p. 699
1940s

“I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.”

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Adolf Hitler c. 1933; as quoted in Hitler Speaks http://books.google.com/books?id=PndurCstDZMC&pg=PA251 (1939), by Hermann Rauschning, London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 247.
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