Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Adolf Hitler (German Fascist Dictator)

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born Nazi leader whose very mention conjures the horrors of the Holocaust and the enormous refugee crisis he precipitated in Central and Eastern Europe during World War II. One of the most dominant and wicked leaders in the history of the world, he served as chancellor of Germany 1933–45.

Hitler directed his youthful frustrations into radical German nationalism and growing anti-Semitism and achieved a following in Germany and Austria that enabled him to make a serious bid for world domination.

Born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, Hitler served in the Bavarian army during World War I, receiving a decoration for bravery. In 1921, he became the leader of the small National Socialist Workers’ Party (Nazi Party.) While imprisoned for his role in the failed Munich Putsch coup d’état, he set out National Socialism’s extreme racist and nationalist views in Mein Kampf (1925.)

Economic distress and dissatisfaction with the Weimar Republic led to electoral gains for the Nazis, and, by allying with orthodox Nationalists, Hitler became chancellor in January 1933. He made himself dictator of a one-party state in which the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo secret police brutally suppressed all opposition.

The racial hatred Hitler incited led to a policy of extermination of Jews and others in the Holocaust. He also pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at territorial expansion in Europe.

The invasion of Poland finally provoked Britain and France into declaring war on Germany in September 1939. Hitler himself played a large part in determining strategy during World War II. In April 1945, with Germany in ruins, he committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin.

Prominent among the numerous biographies of Hitler are Alan Bullock’s Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952, 1962,) James McRandle’s The Track of the Wolf: Essays on National Socialism and Its Leader, Adolf Hitler (1965,) and Albert Speer’s Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs (1970.)

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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
—Adolf Hitler

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
—Adolf Hitler
Topics: Thinking, Luck

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
—Adolf Hitler
Topics: Paradise

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
—Adolf Hitler

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler
Topics: Future

In this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
—Adolf Hitler
Topics: Fighting

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle’s eye than a great man be “discovered” by an election.
—Adolf Hitler

What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
—Adolf Hitler
Topics: Thinking

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
—Adolf Hitler
Topics: Lies

All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true in itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they 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. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.
—Adolf Hitler
Topics: Deception/Lying

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
—Adolf Hitler
Topics: Leadership

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