Adolf Hitler Quotes
If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
Hitler, Adolf. Testimony at the Munich Treason Trial. 26 Feb. 1924, Munich.
Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
Vladimir Lenin. In 1957 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev used the first sentence of this quotation in a speech to the Supreme Soviet. See {240121}. He did not say that he was quoting Lenin, but many of the delegates probably knew this.
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about 6 million Jews and millions of other victims.