Page 179: "The broad masses are blind and stupid and don't know what they are doing. They were primitive in attitude. For them, understanding offered only a shaky platform. What is stable is emotion: hatred."
Page 631: War was for Hitler the essence of human activity, "What meeting a man means for a girl, war meant for him."
Page 697: "I already stated on 1 September 1939 in the German Reichstag - and I refrain from over hasty prophecies - that this war will not come to an end as the Jews imagine, with the extermination of the European-aryan peoples, but that the result of the war will be the annihilation of Jewry. For the first time the old Jewish law will now be applied: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth...and the hour will come when the most evil world-enemy of all time will have played out its role, at least for a thousand years."
Page 777: Though not a Hitler quote, Heinrich Himmler expresses Hitler's mentality in the most egregious quote of the book - in my opinion. The following quote is an example of a thesis from Kershaw that is present though out the book: working towards the fuhrer. "We faced the question: what should we do with the women and children? I decided here too to find a completely clear solution. I did not regard myself as justified in exterminating the men - this is to say, to kill them or have them killed - and allow the avengers in the shape of the children to grow up for our sons and grandchildren. The difficult decision had to be taken to have this people disappear from the earth."
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