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Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, a town in what is now Austria, on April 20, 1889.
National Socialist German Workers’ Party or NSDAP. The shortened version of the name was the Nazi Party. Hitler had designed their banner, which consisted of a swastika in a white circle with a red background.
During this period, he was heavily influenced by the Aufbau Vereinigung, a group of white Russian exiles who introduced Hitler to the idea of a Jewish conspiracy.
On November 8, 1923, Hitler and the NSDAP attempted a coup known as the Beer Hall Putsch.
“Never in history has such ruination—physical and moral—been associated with the name of one man.”
“Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.” —Ted Bundy
“As a kid, I quite fancied the romantic, bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgment of the establishment.” —Peter Wright
“Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.” —Adolf Hitler
Hitler was outraged by the Treaty of Versailles in which Germany had to admit it started the war and was stripped of various territories. It also had to demilitarize the Rhineland, and damaging economic sanctions were imposed. Hitler wrote that, while he was in the hospital bed, he had the idea that he would liberate Germany and make it great once again.
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” —George Orwell
By November 1923, the value of the mark against the U.S. dollar was 4,210,500,000,000 to 1.
triumvirate
“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” —Adolf Hitler
“The man who is born to be a dictator is not compelled. He wills it. He is not driven forward, but drives himself. There is nothing immodest about this. Is it immodest for a worker to drive himself toward heavy labor? Is it presumptuous of a man with the high forehead of a thinker to ponder through the nights till he gives the world an invention?
“I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.” —Adolf Hitler
Night of the Long Knives
“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.”
