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All Propaganda Must Be So Popular And On Such An Intellectual Level, That Even The Most Stupid Of Those Towards Whom It Is Directed Will Understand It. Therefore, The Intellectual Level Of The Propaganda Must Be Lower The Larger The Number Of People Who Are To Be Influenced By It.

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Adolf Hitler

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All Propaganda Must Be So Popular And On Such An Intellectual Level, That Even The Most Stupid Of Those Towards Whom It Is Directed Will Understand It. Therefore, The Intellectual Level Of The Propaganda Must Be Lower The Larger The Number Of People Who Are To Be Influenced By It.

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I Will Not Wage War Against Women And Children! I Have Instructed My Air Force To Limit Their Attacks To Military Objectives. However, If The Enemy Should Conclude From This That He Might Get Away With Waging War In A Different Manner He Will Receive An Answer That He'll Be Knocked Out Of His Wits!

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History Is As Old As My Grandfather

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Brutality Creates Respect.

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I Am Personally Convinced Of The Great Power And Deep Significance Of Christianity, And I Won't Allow Any Other Religion To Be Promoted.

First, Therefore, [the Jew] Goes About Making Up To The People For His Previous Sins Against Them. He Begins His Career As The 'benefactor' Of Mankind. Since His New Benevolence Has A Practical Foundation, He Cannot Very Well Adhere To The Old Biblical Recommendation, That The Left Hand Should Not Know What The Right Hand Giveth.

No Politician Should Ever Let Himself Be Photographed In A Bathing Suit.

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The Size Of The Lie Is A Definite Factor In Causing It To Be Believed.

A Man Who Has No Sense Of History Is Like A Man Who Has No Ears Or No Eyes.

Struggle Is The Father Of All Things. It Is Not By The Principles Of Humanity That Man Lives Or Is Able To Preserve Himself Above The Animal World, But Solely By Means Of The Most Brutal Struggle.

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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.

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I Was Not In Agreement With The Sharp Anti-semitic Tone, But From Time To Time I Read Arguments Which Gave Me Some Food For Thought. At All Events, These Occasions Slowly Made Me Acquainted With The Man And The Movement, Which In Those Days Guided Vienna's Destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger And The Christian Social Party.

I Follow My Course With The Precision And Security Of A Sleepwalker.

Any Alliance Whose Purpose Is Not The Intention To Wage War Is Senseless And Useless.

Why Should This War In The West Be Fought For The Restoration Of Poland? The Poland Of The Versailles Treaty Will Never Rise Again.

I Know The Horrors Of War: No Gains Can Compensate For The Losses It Brings.

Only Constant Repetition Will Finally Succeed In Imprinting An Idea On The Memory Of The Crowd.

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Characteristics

Providence Has Ordained That I Should Be The Greatest Liberator Of Humanity. I Am Freeing Man From The Restraints Of An Intelligence That Has Taken Charge, From The Dirty And Degrading Self-mortification Of A False Vision Called Conscience And Morality, And From The Demands Of A Freedom And Independence Which Only A Very Few Can Bear.

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I Believe That This Was God's Will - To Send A Boy Into The Reich, To Let Him Become Its Leader, In Order To Bring His Home Country Into The Reich. Otherwise One Must Doubt Providence.

I, For My Part, Acknowledge Another Precept Which Says That Man Must Deal The Final Blow To Those Whose Downfall Is Destined By God.

I'll Put An End To The Idea That A Woman's Body Belongs To Her... Nazi Ideals Demand That The Practice Of Abortion Shall Be Exterminated With A Strong Hand.

How Fortunate For Leaders That Men Do Not Think (also, What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think).

The World Has No Reason For Fighting In Our Defense, And As A Matter Of Principle God Does Not Make Cowardly Nations Free.

Secular Schools Can Never Be Tolerated Because Such A School Has No Religious Instruction And A General Moral Instruction Without A Religious Foundation Is Built On Air; Consequently, All Character Training And Religion Must Be Derived From Faith . . . We Need Believing People.

All Those Who Are Not Racially Pure Are Mere Chaff.

It Is Better To Make A Mistake Than To Do Nothing.

The Union Of Theorizer, Organizer, And Leader In One Man Is The Rarest Phenomenon On Earth; Therein Lies Greatness.

The National Socialist Party Will Prevent In The Future, By Force If Necessary, All Meetings And Lectures Which Are Likely To Exercise A Depressing Influence On The German State.

Today I Must Humbly Thank Providence, Whose Grace Has Enabled Me, Who Was Once An Unknown Soldier In The War, To Bring To A Successful Issue The Struggle For The Restoration Of Our Honor And Rights As A Nation.

Our German Language Has A Word Which In A Magnificent Way Denotes Conduct Based On This Spirit: Doing One's Duty [pflichterfüllung]-which Means Serving The Community Instead Of Contenting Oneself. We Have A Word For The Basic Disposition Which Underlies Conduct Of This Kind In Contrast To Egoism And Selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' We Mean Only The Ability Of The Individual To Sacrifice Himself For The Whole, For His Fellow Men.

For When A People Is Not Willing Or Able To Fight For Its Existence- Providence In Its Eternal Justice Has Decreed That People's End.

I Wish And Will Continue To Wish, That The German People Should Learn That By Reason Of Practical Examples Afforded By Their Ability And Work, They Are Not A Second-rate Or Inferior People In Comparison With Others. On The Contrary They Are Their Equals According To All True Standards Of Values And Therefore Entitled To Equal Rights In All Respects.

While Both Denominations Maintain Missions In Asia And Africa In Order To Win New Followers For Their Doctrine- An Activity Which Can Boast But Very Modest Success Compared To The Advance Of The Mohammedan Faith In Particular- Right Here In Europe They Lose Millions And Millions Of Inward Adherents Who Either Are Alien To All Religious Life Or Simply Go Their Own Ways. The Consequences, Particularly From A Moral Point Of View, Are Not Favorable.

The Receptivity Of The Masses Is Very Limited, Their Intelligence Is Small, But Their Power Of Forgetting Is Enormous. In Consequence Of These Facts, All Effective Propaganda Must Be Limited To A Very Few Points And Must Harp On These In Slogans Until The Last Member Of The Public Understands What You Want Him To Understand By Your Slogan.

And The Founder Of Christianity Made No Secret Indeed Of His Estimation Of The Jewish People. When He Found It Necessary, He Drove Those Enemies Of The Human Race Out Of The Temple Of God.

Only In The Steady And Constant Application Of Force Lies The Very First Prerequisite For Success. This Persistence, However, Can Always And Only Arise From A Definite Spiritual Conviction. Any Violence Which Does Not Spring From A Firm, Spiritual Base, Will Be Wavering And Uncertain.

I Hold To My Conviction That, Once This Path Of Mutual Understanding And Consideration Has Been Taken, More Will Come Of It In The End Than Through Ever So Extensive Pacts Inherently Lacking In Clarity.

Since We Are Not In The League Of Nations In Any Case, We Do Not Devote Our Attention To Reflecting On Its Internal Reforms.

The Reason Why The Ancient World Was So Pure, Light And Serene Was That It Knew Nothing Of The Two Great Scourges : The Pox And Christianity.

Once Again The Songs Of The Fatherland Roared To The Heavens Along The Endless Marching Columns, And For The Last Time The Lord's Grace Smiled On His Ungrateful Children.

Our Task Is To Harness The God-given Energy Of This German Nation To Stand Firm For The Truth.

Protestantism As Such Is A Better Defender Of The Interests Of Germanism, In So Far As This Is Grounded In Its Genesis And Later Tradition; It Fails, However, In The Moment When This Defense Of National Interests Must Take Place In A Province Which Is Either Absent From The General Line Of Its Ideological World And Traditional Development, Or Is For Some Reason Rejected.

Our Thoughts And Actions Must In No Way Be Determined By The Approval Or Disapproval Of Our Time, But By The Binding Obligation To A Truth Which We Have Recognized.

The Big Lie Is A Major Untruth Uttered Frequently By Leaders As A Means Of Duping And Controlling The Constituency.

May Therefore God Give Us The Strength To Continue To Do Our Duty And With This Prayer We Bow In Homage Before Our Dead Heroes, Before Those Whom They Have Left Behind In Bereavement, And Before All The Other Victims Of This War.

There Arc No Such Things As Desperate Situations. Only Desperate Men.

Desperate Situations

What Is America But Beauty Queens, Millionaires, Stupid Records And Hollywood?

We Have To Put A Stop To The Idea That It Is A Part Of Everybody's Civil Rights To Say Whatever He Pleases.

If Artists Do See Fields Blue They Are Deranged, And Should Go To An Asylum. If They Only Pretend To See Them Blue, They Are Criminals And Should Go To Prison.

We Stand For The Maintenance Of Private Property... We Shall Protect Free Enterprise As The Most Expedient, Or Rather The Sole Possible Economic Order.

Never Forget That The Most Sacred Right On This Earth Is Mans Right To Have The Earth To Till With His Own Hands, The Most Sacred Sacrifice The Blood That A Man Sheds For This Earth.

We Must, Therefore, Coolly And Objectively Adopt The Standpoint That It Can Certainly Not Be The Intention Of Heaven To Give One People Fifty Times As Much Land And Soil In This World As Another.

I Have Never Liked France Or The French, And I Have Never Stopped Saying So. (15th February 1945)

More People Died As A Result Of The Tiny Abortive Easter Uprising Against British Rule In Ireland (1916) Than Died As A Result Of Political Violence In Germany During The Entire National Socialist Revolution.

The State Must Act As The Guardian Of A Millennial Future In The Face Of Which The Wishes And The Selfishness Of The Individual Must Appear As Nothing And Submit.

Life Never Forgives Weaknesses.

To Fight, We Must Have Oil For Our Machine.

...we Understand Only The Individual's Capacity To Make Sacrifices For The Community, For His Fellow Men.

Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell Lie; How Much You Want After Victory Nobody Asks Why?

It Would Be Easier For The Devil To Go To Church And Cross Himself With Holy Water Than For These People To Comprehend The Ideas Which Are Accepted Facts To Us Today.

I Am Insulted By The Persistent Asertion That I Want War. Am I A Fool? War! It Would Settle Nothing.

Never In This World Can The Jew Become Master Of Any People Except A Bastardized People.

The Government, Being Resolved To Undertake The Political And Moral Purification Of Our Public Life, Are Creating And Securing The Conditions Necessary For A Really Profound Revival Of Religious Life

The Most Foolish Mistake We Could Possibly Make Would Be To Allow The Subjugated Races To Possess Arms.

Never In These Long Years Have We Offered Any Other Prayer But This: Lord, Grant To Our People Peace At Home, And Grant And Preserve To Them Peace From The Foreign Foe!

The Primitive Simplicity Of Their Minds Renders Them A More Easy Prey To A Big Lie Than A Small One.

You See, It's Been Our Misfortune To Have The Wrong Religion. Why Didn't We Have The Religion Of The Japanese, Who Regard Sacrifice For The Fatherland As The Highest Good? The Mohammedan Religion [islam] Too Would Have Been More Compatible To Us Than Christianity. Why Did It Have To Be Christianity With Its Meekness And Flabbiness?

Your Birth May Be Common, But Death Must Be History.

After The Usa, Germany Today Is Once More The Leading Steel Producing Country In The World.

The National Socialist Movement, Which Aims At Establishing The National Socialist People's State, Must Always Bear Steadfastly In Mind The Principle That Every Future Institution Under That State Must Be Rooted In The Movement Itself.

All Upright Germans Will Be National Socialists, But Only The Best National Socialists Will Be Party Members!

The Greatness Of Christianity Did Not Lie In Attempted Negotiations For Compromise With Any Similar Philosophical Opinions In The Ancient World, But In Its Inexorable Fanaticism In Preaching And Fighting For Its Own Doctrine.

There Is Something Very Unhealthy About Christianity.

It Is A Tragedy Of The Germanic World That Jesus Was Judaised, Distorted, Falsified; And An Alien Asiatic Spirit Was Forced Upon Us. That Is A Crime We Must Repair.

But Even More: All At Once The Jew Also Becomes Liberal And Begins To Rave About The Necessary Progress Of Mankind.

The Youthful Brain Should In General Not Be Burdened With Things Ninety-five Percent Of Which It Cannot Use And Hence Forgets Again... In Many Cases, The Material To Be Learned In The Various Subjects Is So Swollen That Only A Fraction Of It Remains In The Head Of The Individual Pupil, And Only A Fraction Of This Abundance Can Find Application, While On The Other Hand It Is Not Adequate For The Man Working And Earning His Living In A Definite Field.

Faith Is Harder To Shake Than Knowledge, Love Succumbs Less To Change Than Respect, Hate Is More Enduring Than Aversion, And The Impetus To The Mightiest Upheavals On This Earth Has At All Times Consisted Less In A Scientific Knowledge Dominating The Masses Than In A Fanaticism Which Inspired Them And Sometimes In A Hysteria Which Drove Them Forward.

There Is Nothing Great In The World That Does Not Owe Its Origin To The Creative Ability Of An Individual Man.

Thank God I've Always Avoided Persecuting My Enemies.

Great, Truly World-shaking Revolutions Of A Spiritual Nature Are Not Even Conceivable And Realizable Except As The Titanic Struggles Of Individual Formations, Never As Enterprises Of Coalitions.

With The Defeat Of The Reich And Pending The Emergence Of The Asiatic, The African And, Perhaps, The South American Nationalisms, There Will Remain In The World Only Two Great Powers Capable Of Confronting Each Other-the United States And Soviet Russia. The Laws Of Both History And Geography Will Compel These Two Powers To A Trial Of Strength, Either Military Or In The Fields Of Economics And Ideology. (2nd April 1945)

A Car For The People, An Affordable Volkswagen, Would Bring Great Joy To The Masses And The Problems Of Building Such A Car Must Be Faced With Courage.

Even Today I Am Not Ashamed To Say That, Overpowered By Stormy Enthusiasm, I Fell Down On My Knees And Thanked Heaven From An Overflowing Heart For Granting Me The Good Fortune Of Being Permitted To Live At This Time.

Neither I Nor Anyone Else In Germany Would Even Consider Placing Any "conditions" On Our Possible Return To The League Of Nations. Whether Or Not We Return To This Body Depends Exclusively Upon Whether We Can Belong To It As A Completely Equal Nation. This Is Not A "condition," But A Matter Of Course.

The World Will Not Help, The People Must Help Themselves. Its Own Strength Is The Source Of Life. That Strength The Almighty Has Given Us To Use; That In It And Through It, We May Wage The Battle Of Our Life The Others In The Past Years Have Not Had The Blessing Of The Almighty - Of Him Who In The Last Resort, Whatever Man May Do, Holds In His Hands The Final Decision. Lord God, Let Us Never Hesitate Or Play The Coward.

When I Came To Power, I Did Not Want The Concentration Camps To Become Old Age Pensioners Homes, But Instruments Of Terror.

The National Socialist State Refuses To Admit Female Labour In Factories Merely Because Such Labour Is Cheap. There Is, Of Course, A Certain Amount Of Industrial Work Which Can Only Be Performed By Women, But An Essential Condition Is That This Sort Of Work Should Not Be Injurious To Health.

In This World Him Who Does Not Abandon Himself The Almighty Will Not Desert. Him Who Helps Himself Will The Almighty Always Also Help; He Will Show Him The Way By Which He Can Gain His Rights, His Freedom, And Therefore His Future.

The World Is Not For Cowardly Peoples.

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