“The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his victory; the grateful provincials enjoyed the blessings of his reign; but the favourites, who had opposed his elevation, were offended by his virtues; and they justly considered the friend of the people as the enemy of the court.” PeopleStillsYoungFeltEnemyHistoryVirtueArmsVictoryBlessingGratefulCourtSoldierEnjoyedGermanyCompanionReignOffendedBarbariansRoman EmpireElevation Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.” YearsThreeSoundHoursCitiesHistoryMankindHundredFoundationGermanyGatesRomeThree YearsSixtyTribesMidnightFuryGothicElevenAwakenedTrumpetsRoman EmpireCivilised Author:Edward Gibbon
“I find it hard even now not to look on your North African strategy with a jaundiced eye. Cross Channel operations for the liberation of France and advance on Germany, we should finish the war quicker. Yes, probably, but not the way we hope to finish it.” WayShouldLooksWarHardEyeHistoryCrossesStrategyFranceLiberationOperationsGermany Author:George C. Marshall
“Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody. His main ability by far, as he came to realise during the course of 1919, was that in the prevailing circumstances he could inspire an audience which shared his basic political feelings, by the way he spoke, by the force of his rhetoric, by the very power of his prejudice, by the conviction he conveyed that there was a way out of Germany's plight.” WayWarFeelingsPoliticalCoursesLostForceAbilityHistoryAudienceConditionsChangedInspireProductsRevolutionCircumstancesPrejudiceConvictionGermanySpokesRealisingRhetoricHumiliationNazismPrevailingNazi GermanyPlight Author:Ian Kershaw
“If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.” IfsStrongHistoryCryHeroDemocraticRoundsGermanySentimentsNazismNazi Germany Author:A. J. P. Taylor
“A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread unemployment, though these naturally contributed to the atmosphere of doom, but because the Weimar Right was resolved to abolish the parliamentary state in favour of a vaguely conceived authoritarian state.” DoeStatesFallResultsHistoryEconomicDestroyedAtmosphereGermanyUnemploymentFavourFalling ApartDoomAbolishNazismNazi GermanyParliamentaryEconomic Depression Author:Sebastian Haffner
“The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.” DestinyHistoryRemainsGermanyNazismNazi Germany Author:Ernst Rohm
“Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.” PeopleDoeUsePurposeHurtHistoryProtectPoliceNotionRefuseStoresGermanyHolocaustTroopsProtectiveNazismNazi GermanyLendersGoeringMoney Lenders Author:Hermann Goring
“In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured more prominently, posed against the alternative international competition for markets ... The key theme now was the collapse of Germany under parliamentary democracy and party government into a divided people with separate and conflicting interests, which only the NSDAP could overcome by creating a new unity of the nation, transcending class, estate and profession.” PeopleGovernmentNationsInterestSpacePartyClassHistoryDemocracyMissingKeysCreatingOvercomingElectionCompetitionUnityInternationalJewProfessionCampaignsAlternativesGermanyThemeSpokesDividedHolocaustCollapseEstatesCrudeNazism1930sNazi GermanyTranscendingParliamentaryParliamentary Democracy Author:Ian Kershaw
“Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-a-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union.” GivingHas BeensWantedHistoryJourneyWeekPositionEuropeThirdsArmyGermanyStubbornLimbsCould Have BeenNazismInsistenceNazi GermanyMunichChamberlain Author:William L. Shirer
“All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by workers' and soldiers' councils. Adolf Hitler, recuperating in a military hospital, reacted violently to this news. "It became impossible for me to sit still one minute more," he wrote in Mein Kampf.” StillsGovernmentCitiesHistoryImpossibleMinutesMilitaryNewsWorkersSoldierRevolutionaryGermanyHospitalsCouncilTurmoilNazismOne MinuteNazi GermanyMein KampfMunichCologne Author:James Cross Giblin