Jack Kirby Quotes
I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.
Kirby, Jack. Interview by Gary Groth. The Comics Journal, no. 134, Fantagraphics Books, Feb. 1990, pp. 56-112.
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.
Helms was then a young agent of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Berlin.
During the Civil War, General Joseph Hooker castigated the President and called for a dictator to assume power:
The terror to which he referred was to the French Revolution’s executing former aristocrats and then including anyone suspected of monarchist sympathies.
Poland and most other European Governments and their people were very fearful of a strong Germany with WWII always present in their memories. However, at this time the Conservative German government had very passive policies with respect to the European Community and some German leadership and activism was thought necessary by many leaders of Europe. Germany was one of the strongest economies in Europe and without the WWII legacy of aggression would normally be expected to be more of a European leader.
Jacob Kurtzberg, best known by the pen name Jack Kirby, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics.
