“Many contemporary witnesses have pointed out Hitler's perhaps greatest talent - that of an actor - but his changeability has usually been depicted as a result of weakness instead of being understood as his main feature, the key to his character.” NazismHitlerThird Reich Book:The Little Drummer Boy Source: The Little Drummer Boy
“An attentive observer of the drama that repeated itself every night might have spotted among the poor the gaunt figure of a pale, earnest young man, who, despite the easy sociability of Vienna's outcasts, wore his embitterment as if it were a precious decoration.” HistoryHitlerVienna Book:The Little Drummer Boy Source: The Little Drummer Boy
“The categories of socialism and capitalism themselves began to be outdated, because strength was more powerful than wealth, because nationality was more powerful than class, because nationalism was more powerful than internationalism.” HistorySocialismHitlerNational Socialism Author:John Vincent Palatine
“Fascism in general was nationalist and authoritative; it evoked the supremacy of the State and those who serve it. National Socialism echoed these principles but saw the world, and history, ultimately as a fight between races.” WarRaceHistoryFascismStateHitlerNazisNational Socialism Book:The Little Drummer Boy Source: The Little Drummer Boy
“Thus we can say with some confidence that the breakthrough of the NSDAP in 1930 was less a result of the movement's inherent qualities, which until then seemed to have been a tough sell, but an expression of protest against the minority governments of late Weimar, which ruled, without the endorsement of parliamentary majorities, by presidential emergency decrees and responded to the economic crisis with ill-advised austerity measures that did little to alleviate economic progress but were guaranteed to raise ill will.” EconomyHitlerNazisWeimar Republic Book:The Little Drummer Boy Source: The Little Drummer Boy