The Meaning of Hitler Quotes

“it would probably be more correct, and certainly more important, to see not capitalism but individualism as the opposite of socialism.”
― Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler

“Nothing is more misleading than to call Hitler a Fascist. Fascism is upper-class rule, buttressed by artificially manufactured mass enthusiasm”
― Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler

“Since, however, one could not abolish the people behind the Left-wing parties, the workers, they would have to be politically won over to nationalism, and this implied, sixth, that one had to offer them socialism, or at least a kind of socialism, in fact National Socialism. Seventh, their former faith, Marxism, had to be uprooted and that meant — eighth — the physical annihilation of the Marxist politicians and intellectuals who, fortunately, included quite a lot of Jews so that — ninth, and Hitler’s oldest wish — one could also, at the same time, exterminate all the Jews.”
― Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler

“The only opponents or rivals whom Hitler had to consider seriously and whom at times he had to fight in the domestic political arena between 1930 and 1934, were the conservatives. The liberals, the Centre people or the Social Democrats never gave him the least trouble, and neither did the communists.”
― Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler

“The German Reich had to cease to be a state in order to become fully an instrument of conquest.”
― Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler

“There is no development, no maturing in Hitler’s character and personality.”
― Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler

“「成就」具有中性的道德意義，它們只可能是「好的」或「壞的」，但不會是「善良的」或「邪惡的」。”
― Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler

“人們習慣的做法，就是在「社會主義」和「資本主義」這兩個相互對立的框框裡面思考。但是更為正確，至少更加重要的做法，或許就是把「個人主義」而非「資本主義」視為「社會主義」的反面。”
― Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler