Hitler quotes

Igrew up scared of Hitler.Iwanted tokill him becausehe spent all my childhood trying to kill me.

- Colin Baker
In The Mail on Sunday,14 Oct.

Hitler showed surprising loyalty to Mussolini, but it never extended to trusting him.

- A(rthur) H(enry) Reginald Buller
  Hitler:  A Study in Tyranny.

The people Hitler never understood, and whose actions continued to exasperate him to the end of his life, were the British.

- A(rthur) H(enry) Reginald Buller
  Hitler:  A Study in Tyranny.

This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper that bears his name upon it as well as mine: 'We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two people never to go to war with one another again.'

- (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain
  Speech on the signing of the Munich  Agreement, Heston airport, 30 Sep.

Whatever may bethereasonwhether it wasthat Hitler thought hemight get away with what hehad got without fighting for it, or whether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently completehowever, one thing is certainhe missed the bus.

- (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain
  Speech at Central Hall, Westminster, 4  Apr.

No one has been a more consistent opponent of Communism than I have for the last 25 years. I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it, but all that fades away before the spectacle that is now unfolding. The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away.I seethe Russian soldiersstanding on thethreshold of their native land, guarding the fields that their fathers have tilled from time immemorial. Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
Radio broadcast on the German invasionof Russia, 22  Jun.

I have only one purposethe destruction of Hitler, and my life ismuch simplified thereby.If Hitler invaded Hell,I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
Recalled in The Second World War, vol.3 (1950), ch.20.

Like kissing Hitler.

-Tony pseudonym of  Bernie Schwartz Curtis
Of working with Marilyn Monroe on SomeLike It Hot.  Attributed.

Had every Christian in Hitler's Europe followed the example of the king of Denmark and decided to put on the yellow star, there would be today neither despair in the church nor talk of the death of God.

- Emil L Fackenheim
  Quest for Past and Future.

I'll cable Hitler and ask him to shoot around you.

- Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz Goldwyn
  Remark to David Niven, Sep, when Niven left Hollywood to return to England. Quoted in David Niven Bring on the Empty Horses (1975).

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

- Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  Speech,York, 4 Nov.

When I go to see Herr Hitler I give him the Nazi salute because that is the normal thing. It carries no hint of approval of anything he or hisregimemaydo. And, if Ido it, why should you or your team object?

- Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson
   When asked for advice by the England football team in 1938 about giving the Nazi salute before a match in Berlin against Germany. The England team gave the salute, and thereby attracted considerable notoriety at home.

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

- Ken Livingstone
  In the Sunday  Times,'Talking Heads',16  Apr.

  All the so-called powerful reactionaries are paper tigers, for theyare cut off from their people.Was not Hitler a paper tiger, and was he not overthrown? US imperialism has not yet been overthrown, and it has atomic bombsbut I believe that it too will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  Speech to Communist International Congress, Moscow, Nov.

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

- Golda Meir
  Speech in NewYork,11  Jun.

   When Hitlerattacked the Jews I wasnot a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned.And when Hitlerattacked theunionsand the industrialists,I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant churchand there was nobody left to be concerned.

- Martin Niemo«  ller
  Children of Light and Darkness, foreword.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint.He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  In the Philadelphia Record and Chicago Sun, 9 May.

Hitlerhadalready foundout how tocureunemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occurred.

- Edwin Arlington Robinson
Collected in Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), p.10.

I wouldn't believe that Hitler was dead, even if he told me himself.

- Hjalmar Horace Greely Schacht
  Attributed remark, 8 May.