The Meaning of Hitler

it would probably be more correct, and certainly more important, to see not capitalism but individualism as the opposite of socialism.

Nothing is more misleading than to call Hitler a Fascist. Fascism is upper-class rule, buttressed by artificially manufactured mass enthusiasm

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.

The German Reich had to cease to be a state in order to become fully an instrument of conquest.

There is no development, no maturing in Hitler’s character and personality.

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.

O devletin bir numaralı hizmetkârı olmak istemiyordu; o Führer, mutlak efendi olmanın peşindeydi ve kesinlikle doğru olan şu tespiti yapmıştı: Mutlak iktidar sağlam ve işleyen bir devlet yapılanmasında değil sadece dizginlenmiş bir kaos ortamında mümkündür.