Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was an Austrian-born politician and dictator who rose to power in Germany during the early 20th century. He became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. Hitler’s ideologies were centered on extreme nationalism, anti-Semitism, and a desire for territorial expansion.
After becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Hitler rapidly consolidated his power and transformed the democratic Weimar Republic into a totalitarian dictatorship. He implemented a series of policies that targeted minority groups, particularly Jews, leading to the Holocaust—a systematic genocide during World War II in which six million Jews and millions of others were killed.
Hitler’s aggressive foreign policy led to the invasion of neighboring countries, which eventually triggered World War II in 1939. His rule resulted in the death of millions of people, including civilians and soldiers from various nations.
In 1945, as Allied forces closed in on Germany, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin. His actions and policies during his time in power remain one of the darkest chapters in human history, serving as a stark reminder of the horrors of totalitarianism and the importance of safeguarding human rights and democratic principles.
Adolf Hitler Quotes
1. “The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
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2. “Strength lies not in defence but in attack.”
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3. “Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
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4. “Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”
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5. “Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.”
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6. “Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”
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7. “Who says I am not under the special protection of God?”
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8. “The day of individual happiness has passed.”
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9. “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
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10. “Hate is more lasting than dislike.”
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11. “I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
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12. “Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.”
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13. “Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.”
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14. “Sooner will a camel pass through a needle’s eye than a great man be ‘discovered’ by an election.”
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15. “Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”
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16. “Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.”
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17. “By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.”
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18. “Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.”
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19. “Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.”
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20. “Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.”
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21. “Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
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22. “All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.”
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23. “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.”
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24. “The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”
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25. “The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
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26. “The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”
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27. “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
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28. “Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.”
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29. “What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.”
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30. “It is not truth that matters, but victory.”
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31. “The art of leadership… consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.”
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32. “Great liars are also great magicians.”
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33. “I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.”
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34. “It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.”
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35. “I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”
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36. “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
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37. “As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.”
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38. “All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
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39. “If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.”
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40. “I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.”
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41. “As soon as by one’s own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one’s own right is laid.”
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42. “The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.”
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43. “Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.”
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