Adolf Hitler Quotes
The fact that, with time, this League [of Nations]-which was presumably designed by its founders to exist for all eternity-cannot be coupled with a Treaty the short term of which is inherent in its own weaknesses and impracticabilities, is a point which can perhaps be contested by today's interested parties, but which will one day be deemed a matter of course in history.
Hitler, Adolf. Speech to the Reichstag. 21 May 1935, Berlin.
The United States Senate refused to ratify the Treaty that President Woodrow Wilson had negotiated establishing the League of Nations.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. International organizations have been notoriously inept at protecting countries from aggression or minorities from persecution and ethnic cleansing and genocide. The Armenian genocide by the Turks was the exemplar at the time, but the UN peacekeepers refused to fight to prevent the Serbs from murdering 7,000 Bosnian Muslims. When they were protecting the Israeli-Palestinian borders, they did nothing to stop Arab Armies from attacking Israel right through the UN Troops. They did nothing to help prevent the Ruanda genocide. UN “troops” are rarely willing to risk their lives for the victimized people or the International Organization itself.
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.
