Adolf Hitler Quotes

It would be foolish to question the oratory skills of a person who could hypnotize the masses with his mere words. We are talking about Adolf Hitler―one of the most dominant figures in the world history, who eventually became the Chancellor of Germany. Hitler's childhood was spent in Braunau, Austria, where he was born in a small peasant family.

His journey from the peasant family of Braunau to the Chancellorship of Germany can be best defined as a mix of hardships and hatred, with the latter having a dominant role to play. He is best known for his hatred for Jews and the infamous Holocaust―the genocide of around six million Jews in Europe during the World War 2.

Adolf Hitler himself was a great orator of the 20th century. When he was lodged in jail in 1923, he started working on his autobiography, Mein Kampf  (My Struggle), in which he highlighted his political ideology. He was an ardent proponent of Nazism―a form of socialism typically characterized by racism and expansionism, and obedience to a strong leader.

His speeches about German nationalism, anti-capitalism, and anti-communism were typically characterized by his superb oratory skills, such that they earned him a huge fan following. From hereon, we will go through some quotes by Adolf Hitler which speak volumes about his personality.

✦ Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

✦ 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.

✦ Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

✦ Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

✦ I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

✦ Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

✦ Strength lies not in defense but in attack.

✦ The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

✦ The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Though it is very difficult to trace the beginning of Hitler's tryst with anti-semitism, with different sources giving different information, his hatred for Jews was no secret to the world. He also influenced his followers to hate the Jews as much as he himself did. It was his speeches of anti-semitism which played a defining role in the Holocaust.

Here are some of his quotes which will give you an idea about his stance against the Jewish community.

✦ The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

✦ ... the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

✦ The Ten Commandments have lost their validity. Conscience is a Jewish invention, it is a blemish like circumcision.

✦ I could have annihilated all the Jews, but I left some of them to let you know why I was annihilating them.

While these quotes give a picture of the mindset of this dictator, a look at his biography gives a broader picture of his life. It isn't surprising that his life was full of contentions, so much so that even after his death various facts about him, including how he died, continue to create controversies.