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Businessman

American businessman born in Germany, who served as an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ernst Hanfstaengl supported Germany during World War I and became a U.S. citizen after the war, achieving success in the business world.

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“Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.”

People Would Be Democracy Military Willing Conviction Stakes World War 2 Democracies Have

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

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

Has Beens Interest Jew

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

“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.”

People Years Lasts Results Influence Position Unheard Misused

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

“Anti-Semitism is not based on strictly religious grounds and is not directed against the Jewish faith as such. However, all German Christians resent and denounce the fact that the Jews have been the chief advocates of atheism. They have influenced the workers' children through the Communist youth organizations, of which they are the leading spirit.”

Children Has Beens Facts Christian Spirit Religious Atheism Youth Organization Workers Jew Chiefs Communist Resent Anti Semitism Jewish Faith

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“With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.”

Roots Floating Intangible

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

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

Attraction Homosexual

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

“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.”

Men Hero Models Historical Goebbels

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

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

Philosophical

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

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

Mind Running Rivers Surface Bob

Book:Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer

Source: Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer

“Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.”

People Breasts Strokes Swimmer

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

“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.”

Thinking Wanted Political Information Movement Draws Conclusion Logical Skyscraper Ku Klux Klan Political Movements

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

“If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it.”

Ifs Fashion

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

About the Author

Born: February 2, 1887
Died: November 6, 1975
Known for: Businessman
Quotes: 12

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Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the FuhrerRelated source material

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