Albert Einstein Quotes

Think of the prelude to World War Two. Think of all the countries that said, well, we don’t have enough evidence. I mean, Mein Kampf had been written. Hitler had indicated what he intended to do. The people who argued for waiting for more evidence have to ask themselves how they are going to feel at that point where another event occurs.

If Hitler were to succeed, it would be the end for many besides ourselves of all those things which, as we say, “make life worth living.” We realize that the struggle may cost us everything, but just because the things we are defending are worth any sacrifice, it is a noble privilege to be the defenders of things so precious.

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided.

Hitler is a very great man, like an inspired religious leader—and as such rather fanatical—but not scheming, not selfish, not greedy for power, but a mystic, a visionary who really wants the best for his country …

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

Had he been victorious, Hitler himself could hardly have demanded more.

So many men have been lost on the Polish front that we need replacements. There are plenty of girls in Germany who will sleep with SS men to provide soldiers for the Fuhrer.

Ludendorff and Hitler have everything ready for a march into Saxony and Thuringia. The North German Fascist organizations ... have made all their preparations for the military overthrow of Berlin and Hamburg ... The officers of the German army are equipping the Fascists.

We’ll all fight like cats – or die rather than submit to Hitler. U.S. look pretty useless. Well, we must die without them.

I would rather vote for Hitler.

Hunger created Hitler, and paradoxically, Hitler created still greater hunger.

In comparison to Hitler we are all pip-squeaks. Anyone who believes he can do better than the Führer is stupid.

I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price.

World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to conquer the world, who tried to exterminate people.

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.