Hitler's First Hundred Days Quotes

“German greeting,”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“They were stepping up, not cowering down.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“it was “decidedly instructive” to contemplate “the ease with which one-half of the population of the country were suddenly deprived of the right of speech, the right to read, and one might almost say the right to think.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Fascist self-sufficiency is a contradiction in terms, since Fascism is based” upon “continuous expansion.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Nineteen thirty-three was a global event because it was immediately recognized as having worldwide political implications;”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“German businesses”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Who was “us” and who was “them” was a matter not of sympathy or disposition but of decree.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“people’s community.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“counterterrorism was not the necessary means to fight terrorism; rather, it was the reverse: the incidence of terrorism was necessary to install a counterterrorist order, impose a state of emergency, and suspend the rule of law.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“persecution,”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“finally there is just one truth: the official version.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“protective custody,”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Yet citizens did not speak up because they had always divided themselves up between those (others) who read Vorwärts and those (of us) who did not. You can only preserve the civic order if you step in for your opponent and speak out against your ally.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Listening to the early recordings of Hitler’s speeches, one biographer was struck by their “peculiarly obscene” and “copulatory character”: “the silence at the beginning,” then “the short, shrill yappings,” followed by “minor climaxes and first sounds of liberation,” and then “the ecstasies released by the finally unblocked oratorial orgasms.” Writer René Schickele once spoke of Hitler’s speeches as being “like sex murders.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“The Song of the Germans”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“national awakening” it oversaw proved useful, as it allowed the Nazis to label “Marxist” opponents as un-German traitors and terrorists.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Erich Ebermayer joked that the government “would last until after the next lost war.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Reich chancellor!”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Berlin Stays Red,”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Never before had so many citizens participated in an election.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“millions of people “deeply believed things that were verifiably untrue.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“ideology, a kind of conversion experience in which the unsettlement of the war, the experience of revolution, and emotional attachment to the idea of the nation created a generation that incorporated the revolutionary message of the National Socialists.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Hitler as “the only man who can save us,”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“People bitch like lunatics but are Nazis nonetheless.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“They loved and reviled Hitler like no other twentieth-century politician.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

“Consider the cast. Conrad Veit, the somnambulist in the classic 1920 expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, had left Germany with his Jewish wife in 1933; the highest-paid member of the cast, he starred as Major Heinrich Strasser.”
― Peter Fritzsche, Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich