Adolf Hitler Quotes
This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Translated by Ralph Manheim, Houghton Mifflin, 1943, p. 310.
At the time of this statement most people thought that Bush was joking. But by the end of his Presidency many looked back on the quote and thought that Bush had such preferences. He unilaterally took the country into the Iraq War and assumed Presidential Powers that no other president had ever attempted. Most serious, his administration actually took the formal legal position that the President did not have to obey the law if he unilaterally thought that it was not in the nation’s interest from the point of view of the Commander in Chief. So many debate whether this quotation was a light hearted joke of a harbinger of his real feelings about the Presidency.
The eighty years refer to the time since the fall of the Ottoman Empire which is looked upon by many Muslims as a dual disaster: The West destroying the last Muslim military geopolitical state and the rise of modern Turkey as a secular state.
Soon he had the power of a dictator but he didn’t force his will on the vast majority of the Cubans. His decrees made all the wealthy and the cronies of the dictator Batista outraged and most of them left Cuba. He was a dynamic demagogue and the people handed him dictatorial powers which he did not reject. He was so popular that he was the only leader in the Americas who would give 4 hour speeches and move through the streets without any bodyguards until the United States and dissident expatriates tried to assassinate him. With all that popularity, none the less he would not allow open criticism of his regime and jailed many political opponents. So he indeed became a dictator but never needed the machine gun to maintain power.
Vladimir Lenin. Despite Lenin’s abhorrence of anti-Semitism, there were any other Russians for whom it was normal. After Lenin’s death, Stalin and his henchmen used anti-Semitism to divert attention from the Communist Party’s failure to meet its economic and other goals.
Earlier, his father had also castigated the ministers over their inept hard-line handling of the American Revolution. See {641505} .
This quotation is of historical significance because it is a source, in addition to the Bible, about the fact that the kingdom of Israel existed and was in conflict with the Moabites. Politically it is important currently because a few of the modern Arab leaders have claimed that there was never a Jewish Kingdom in the region and therefore the Jews do not have a claim on any of the land of Palestine. This is strong evidence that they are wrong. Omri was the 6th King of Israel and his son, Ahab, the 7th. A stele is an ancient stone with writing carved on it. The picture is of the Mesha Stele which today is in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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.
