Hitler Quotes

“Hitler had contempt for people or nations that were weak.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Hitler nurtured his personal image with great care to ensure that his adoring public perceived him to be the father figure of the nation.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Joseph Stalin at Yalta in 1945: Stalin was a typical Russian despot, ruling a backward country with a rod of iron.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“His personal frustrations required a scapegoat – and, traditionally, Jews did not fight back. He could also project on to Jews his sensitivity, weakness, timidity and masochism.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Murray claimed that Hitler was ‘ideocentric’, since he was clearly devoted to the Prussian militarism ideal for Germany. He could also be seen as ‘sociocentric’, as he had a plan in which the majority of Germans would supposedly benefit. But these characteristics were clearly secondary to his egocentric craving for fame and immortality.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Hitler’s nightmares were ‘very suggestive of homosexual panic’, Murray said.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Fresh from the barber’s chair, Hitler addresses a mass rally of the SA in Dortmund, 1933. You can easily imagine the feeling of power.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“In the face of opposition, Hitler resorted to emotional outbursts, tantrums of rage, accusations and indignation, ending in tears and self-pity.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“New technology, radio, meant Hitler could reach a vast audience; he could rant to his heart’s content and know he was being listened to.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“He suffers from frequent emotional collapses in which he yells and weeps. He had nightmares from a bad conscience; and he had long spells when energy, confidence and the power of decision abandon him. Sexually he is a full-fledged masochist.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“In 1938, the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Professor Henry A. Murray, MD, of the Harvard Psychological Clinic to investigate the psyche of Hitler. One of the early champions of psychoanalysis in the United States, Murray was inspired by Carl Jung, an early associate of Freud, and was a founder of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society. Also a leading authority on the life and work of Herman Melville, he once gave Freud a copy of Moby Dick and reported that the father of psychoanalysis promptly proclaimed that ‘the whale was a father figure’.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Hitler’s personality structure, though falling within the normal range, may now be described asof the paranoid type with delusions of persecution and of grandeur. This stems from a sado-masochistic split in his personality.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“According to Vernon, the key to Hitler’s personality lay in his troubled childhood relations with his parents.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“According to Vernon, syphilophobia often had its roots in the childhood discovery of the nature of sexual congress between the parents.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“December 1941 and Hitler launches into his diatribe against Roosevelt in the Reichstag as Germany declares war on the USA.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Hitler’s mother Klara was a devout Catholic and regularly went to church with her children. She doted on her son Adolf.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“But his deep-rooted hatred of Jews was inflamed by violent anti-Semitic literature.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Hitler also exhibited an extreme attachment to his mother.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“In a strongly patriarchal society, his father was particularly aggressive and brutal towards his son.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Vernon also referred to the system developed by American psychologist William Herbert Sheldon, classifying Hitler as a ‘443’ with a considerable degree of gynandromorphism – that is, an essentially masculine body but one also showing feminine characteristics.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Vernon thought that Hitler probably fell into the athletic, verging on the pyknic.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“He had an excessive fear of poisoning, taking extreme precautions with his food, and his bed had to be made up in a specific way. He could not work steadily, but only in explosive outbursts of energy or not at all. Even the smallest decision demanded the greatest effort and he had to work himself up to it. When thwarted, he would have a hysterical tantrum, scolding others in a high-pitched voice, foaming at the mouth and stamping uncontrollably in fury. On several occasions, when he was to make an important speech, he stood in silence before his audience, then walked out, and one international broadcast was inexplicably taken off air. And he threatened to commit suicide if the Nazi Party was destroyed or his plans for the German Reich failed.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“There were other symptoms of maladjustment. He suffered from severe insomnia and when he did sleep he had violent nightmares. At times he had hallucinations and often heard voices on his long, solitary walks.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“He had an excessive fear of poisoning, taking extreme precautions with his food, and his bed had to be made up in a specific way.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Nuremberg was chosen for the annual Nazi Party Congress because of its association with Wagner.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“When depressed, he needed to talk to prove his own strength by dominating others.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Siegfried awakens Brunhilde in this scene from Wagner’s The Ring; Hitler was besotted with Wagner’s work.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Hitler’s early association with Ernst Röhm, leader of his storm troopers, and other homosexuals sparked gossip, but reliable sources denied that Hitler had any proclivities in that direction.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Ernst Röhm and Hitler at the cenotaph during the 1933 Nuremberg Rally; Hitler’s fantasies of taking over power were coming true.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer

“Though in Mein Kampf Hitler claimed to have had a serious lung ailment, his family doctor Eduard Bloch said this was not true.”
― Nigel Cawthorne, Hitler: The Psychiatric Files: The Madness of the Führer