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HISTORIANS AND QUOTES
for Germany
HISTORIANS
Sir Alan Bullock- Hitler-A study in Tyranny
Bullock and Nicholls- Hitler was important in fail of WR
Detlev Peukert- Hitler’s support came from his promises of Germany’s ‘returning to past’
John Maynard Keynes: The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Nazis used government money to put people in jobs- later used in USA
Sir Ian Kershaw- social impact of Nazism, The Nazi Dictatorship. Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
Walter Frank- Nazi historian, anti-Semitism
Andreas Hillgruber- Intentionalist- Hitler was the driving force behind Holocaust- Hitler’s Strategy
Martin- the failure of Weimar was Hindenburg’s fault
AJP Taylor- Depression put the wind in Hitler’s sails
Kershaw, Kolb and Broszart- social historians
David Hoggan- Der Erzwungene Krieg- about Anglo-Polish conspiracy to wage aggression against Germany, The Myth of the Sex Million- denying Holocaust
Hugh Trevor-Roper: A. J. P. Taylor, Hitler and the War.
William Shirer- Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
QUOTES
Alan Bullock: “Hitler was jobbed into power by the old guard.” Hitler was a “Mountebank”
Hitler: “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”, “The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”, “The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”, “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
Goebbels: “If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.”
One German woman told the American reporter Nora Wall: “He is my mother and my father. He keeps me safe from all harm.”
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