Gregor Strasser Quotes

This quotation is important because there are some who believed that the professional German Soldiers did not respect Hitler and his murderous policies. This quotation shows that at least publicly Donitz had no problem extolling Hitler above all others. After the war Donitz was found guilty of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and using thousands of slave laborers in his shipyards. He was sentenced to 10 years, one of the lightest sentences if the German War Crimes Trials.

Hitler and his Nazis had initiated a series of political murders of Nazi outspoken opponent. This included an ex-Chancellor--Kurt von Schleicher—and many others. Von Papen, was an apologist for Hitler and the Nazis and his support was a big factor in the Nazi takeover of Germany as he was a noble and deeply respected by conservatives who had real concerns about Hitler and National Socialism.

Although a fervent Nazi, he detested Hitler. When Hitler consolidated power, one of the first things he did in 1934 was to order his guards to murder Strasser, just as Strasser had feared.

She, like her husband and many of the America Firsters, believed that Hitler should be allowed to overrun Europe and Russia. See {613688}. The America First group was a pro-fascist organization who supported the axis powers until they declared war on the United States. Even then, there were some Nazi sympathizers who were anti-immigrant, racist and anti-Semitic in addition to being fascists. Both of the Lindberghs were America Firsters

Hitler neither smoked tobacco or drank alcohol. They appear to have been his only virtues.

When the Nazis took over the German government, Schrodinger, a world famous scientist, at one of his major scientific lectures, gave an analogy that was critical of Hitler and the Nazis. The crowd of scientists wildly applauded. The Nazi agents took note of the speech. In 1938 Hitler had solidified his hold on Germany, Schrodinger was threatened with loss of his academic position and possibly a concentration camp. Since the scientist was so world famous, the Nazis persuaded him to issue a public statement of loyalty of which this quotation was part. It was published in all the German newspapers and scientific journals. Later, in the midst of WWII, Schrodinger was fired anyway on the grounds of “political unreliability”. See {629746} for Schrodinger’s letter of apology to his colleague Albert Einstein for his weakness in issuing the original apology.

Before there were supermarkets, different produce was sold in different stores. Grocery stores run by grocers, sold fruits, vegetables, cereals, and canned goods but not meat of fish which had their own special stores.

This is a very interesting historical description of the man who would destroy much of the world. It is a woman’s viewpoint as Thompson was one of the very few female foreign correspondents and writers. It was also early in Hitler’s career where it was unknown how he would impact Germany, Europe or the World.

Robinson who was a Republican from New York was, like the other Negro Republican delegates , when they were cursed, shoved, threatened and spat on. The Southern delegates were part of a general Southern backlash as a result of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Some scholars look back at the allied bombing of German Cities in WWII with criticism that it was morally improper to bomb populated cities, and that the use of the adjective “exterminating” indicated that Churchill was more interested in killing Germans than strategic victory. This revisionist history has two failings. First, the Germans had already bombed Coventry, London and other civilian targets in England as well as cities in Holland, Poland and other countries killing many civilians. As a result, under the rules of war, Germany was no longer entitled to protection for their cities. Further, Hamburg and other targets were manufacturing sites of war material and as such lost the protection anyway. Even Dresden, which had very little war manufacturing was the main location for R&R of German Officers and by their military presence in the city converted it into a legitimate target. FDR agreed with Churchill, that the bombing was a good strategy to cause Hitler to fall as they thought the public would rebel. They were wrong however and his grip on the population through the Gestapo and the military was so strong that, it took a land invasion and occupation to put an end to Hitler. However, the devastating bombing all but crippled the German weapons development and deployment. For example. The Germans had developed the Jet Airplane Engine and actually put a few in the fight at the end if the war. Without the bombing, they would have had many more and countered the allied air supremacy. However, it is also true that Churchill and many Englishmen and some Americans believed that the English were morally entitled to retaliation for the innocent civilians killed with the German bombing of civilian targets.

His response was typical of the German intelligencia and the upper middle class at the time. They neither took the old militarists nor Hitler’s Fascist Brownshirts very seriously, even when they were seizing power. The Nazis and the militarists had attributed the harsh terms that the Treaty of Versailles ending WWI was attributed to a cabal of Jews who had embedded themselves in key positions advising the American, English, and French leadership so they could dominate the world. But first, they had to weaken Germany because the Jews knew that the German leadership was aware of their plans and would be their strongest obstacle. This fantastic conspiracy theory came from the notorious forgery, The Protocol of the Enders of Zion which had been published and distributed heavily among the German right wing. Hitler and his henchmen used this existing libel, to dupe most Germans, among whom there was extensive anti-Semitism, into thinking that the Jews were responsible for most of the serious ills of Germany at the time—the terrible economy and inflation, the weakened military, the loss of the Sudetenland and their overseas colonies, the sexual immorality in Germany, the Communist agitators, the perception of most of the civilized world that the Germans were dangerous militarists who had to be contained.

This quotation shows that the racism and master race of Nazi Germany was a norm in Germany well before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It was an endemic part of the culture. This makes the German post WWII reforms all the more remarkable as the vast majority of an entire nation had to radically change its world and personal views and perceptions.

Helms was then a young agent of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Berlin.

Blair was the Labour Party Leader at that point. Blair led his party to victory shortly thereafter, and replaced Major as the Prime Minister.