Hitlerland Quotes

“Did he believe all that he said?' he asked. 'The question is inapplicable to this sort of personality. Subjectively Adolf Hitler was, in my opinion, entirely sincere even in his self-contradictions. For his is a humorless mind that simply excludes the need for consistency that might distress more intellectual types. To an actor the truth is anything that lies in its effect: if it makes the right impression it is true.'"

American journalist Edgar Mowrer on Hitler, 1933”
― Andrew Nagorski, Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power

“Did he believe all that he said?... The question is inapplicable to this sort of personality. Subjectively Adolf Hitler was, in my opinion, entirely sincere even in his self-contradictions. For his is a humorless mind that simply excludes the need for consistency that might distress more intellectual types. To an actor the truth is anything that lies in its effect: if it makes the right impression it is true."

Edgar Mowrer on Hitler, 1933”
― Andrew Nagorski, Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power

“German nudists are the only successful rebels against Nazi control,” he wrote.”
― Andrew Nagorski, Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power