{"quotes":[{"text":"My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”I exploded:“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.","author":"Elie Wiesel","tags":["death","genocide","germany","history","hitler","holocaust","jews"],"id":2109,"author_id":"Elie+Wiesel"},{"text":"Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion is simple. The Semitic texts from Bronze Age Palestine of which Christianity is comprised still fit uncomfortably well with contemporary life. The Old Testament depicts a God capricious and cruel; blood sacrifice, vengeance, genocide; death and destruction et al. Would He not approve of Herr Hitler and the brutal, tribalistic crusade against Hebrews and non-Christian ‘untermensch?’One thing is inarguable. His church on Earth has produced some of the most vigorous and violent contribution to the European fascist cause.It is synergy. Man Created God, even if God Created Man; it all exists in the hubris and apotheosis of the narcissistic soul, and alas, all too many of the human herd are willing to follow the beastly trait of leadership. The idea of self-emancipation and advancement, with Europe under the jackboot of fascism, would be Quixotic to the point of mirthless lunacy.","author":"Daniel S. Fletcher","tags":["apotheosis","bonhoeffer","bronze-age-palestine","catholic-church","catholic-church-nazi-germany","catholic-fascism","christianity","church-hitler","church-right-wing","crusades","emancipation","extreme-right","fascism","fascism-and-the-church","franco","god","god-vengeance","hitler","italy","jackboot","jackboot-britain","mussolini","nazis-and-the-church","nietzsche","old-testament","old-testament-god","religion","religious","right-wing","spanish-civil-war","the-crusades","tribalistic","vatican","vatican-city","vengeance","vengeful","zealotry","zealots"],"id":4201,"author_id":"Daniel+S.+Fletcher"},{"text":"They’ve gave me many names,I’ve wore many masks and sat on their altars, They’ve called me Hitler, and Muhammad Ali,They’ve crucify me,And forced me to be like them, They resuscitated me, They forced me to live.I am God, and the Devil,The looser and the champion,I created all you see,I am God, and Muhammad AliI’m the one creating time, and eternity,I am God, I am Hitler,I am the king and the slave,I am life and death, and Muhammad Ali.","author":"Quetzal","tags":["death","hitler","jesus","king","life"],"id":13845,"author_id":"Quetzal"},{"text":"In his thoughtful and complex style of analysis, Hitler continued on to note the following: “Since the newspapers in question did not enjoy an outstanding reputation ... I regarded them more as the products of anger and envy than the [representation] of a principled, though perhaps mistaken, point of view.” In the lines above, we see Hitler begin to wrestle with anti- Semitism, flatly reject religious anti-Semitism as unworthy of Austrian cultural tradition, and suspect that the arguments of the anti-Semitic press and gutter pamphlets were exaggerated beyond credibility by too much subjective and too little objective and principled argument. The view of virtually every Hitler biographer that he based his anti-Semitism on arguments derived from the gutter press and pamphlets of Vienna does not hold up in the face of the words above. To the contrary, we see Hitler take the measure of that liter.","author":"Russel H.S. Stolfi","tags":["anti-semitism","biography","hitler"],"id":14493,"author_id":"Russel+H.S.+Stolfi"},{"text":"Somewhere in the distance he could hear a wireless playing Judy Garland's 'Over the Rainbow.' Wolf had seen the film but, had he been the one swept up to the magical land of Oz, he would have raised an army of flying monkeys, stuck the witches in a concentration camp, razed the Emerald City to the ground and executed the wizard for communist sympathies, being a Jew, a homosexual, intellectually retarded, or all of the above.He did like the tune, though.","author":"Lavie Tidhar","tags":["flying-monkeys","hitler","satire","wizard-of-oz"],"id":19847,"author_id":"Lavie+Tidhar"},{"text":"Hitler derived several things from his experience and achievements in World War I, without which his rise to power in 1933 would have been at the least problematical, and at the most inconceivable. Hitler survived the war as a combat soldier—a rifle carrier—in a frontline infantry regiment. The achievement was an extraordinary one based on some combination of near-miraculous luck and combat skill. The interpretive fussing over whether or not Hitler was a combat soldier because he spent most of the war in the part of the regiment described as regimental headquarters can be laid to rest as follows: Any soldier in an infantry regiment on an active front in the west in World War I must be considered to have been a combat soldier. Hitler’s authorized regimental weapon was the Mauser boltaction, magazine-fed rifle. This gives a basic idea of what Hitler could be called upon to do in his assignment at the front. As a regimental runner, he carried messages to the battalions and line companies of the regiment, and the more important ones had to be delivered under outrageously dangerous circumstances involving movement through artillery fire and, particularly later in the war, poison gas and the omnipresent rifle fire of the skilled British sniper detach.","author":"Russel H.S. Stolfi","tags":["biography","hitler","iron-cross","soldier","ww1"],"id":21272,"author_id":"Russel+H.S.+Stolfi"},{"text":"Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["african-americans","anti-blackness","black-people","hate","hatred","hitler","holocaust","nazi","race","race-relations","racism"],"id":25580,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"The 2016 USA presidential election race clarified how an evil Nazi dictator like Adolf Hitler was able to come to power in global politics.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["2016","able","adolf","clarified","come","dictator","election","election-2016","evil","global","hitler","nazi","political-philosophy","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","power","president-of-the-united-states","presidential","presidential-election","presidential-race","race","usa"],"id":35552,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.","author":"Adolf Hitler","tags":["aversion","crowd-control","crowds","domination","faith","fanaticism","hatred","hitler","hypnosis","hysteria","knowledge","love","mass-suggestion","nazis","psychology","respect"],"id":53372,"author_id":"Adolf+Hitler"},{"text":"It was a cultural revolution, and was not directed at instituting economic changes. He could thus appeal to old prejudices without threatening the existing economic system. This appealed, above all, to white-collar workers and the small entrepreneurs, as some of the statistics presented in this book will demonstrate. It was their kind of revolution: the ideology would give them a new status, free them from isolation in the industrial society, and give them a purpose in life. But it would not threaten any of their vested interests; indeed it would reinforce their bourgeois predilections toward family...And restore the 'good old values' which had been so sadly dismantled by modernity.","author":"George L. Mosse","tags":["bourgeois","germany","hitler","industrialism","middle-class","modernity","nazism","nostalgia","pre-world-war-ii","preconceptions","prejudice","values","white-collar"],"id":56397,"author_id":"George+L.+Mosse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":80,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}