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Quote by Ernst Hanfstaengl

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

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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. more

“Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching emotions. Just as he could be terribly brutal in following up political ideas, so he could be humanely sensitive for the feelings of individuals, for the individual human life.”

Humans Children Ideas Feelings Political Individual Emotion Following Human Life Sensitive Charm Touching Brutal Charmed

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.”

Situation Shapes Behavior Intuition Enormous Surroundings Adjusting Great Gifts Histrionic

Author:Albert Speer

“Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.”

Body Results Situation Technology Gun Importance Mere Troops Assault Tigers Handful Detachment Tanks

Author:Erich von Manstein

“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

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