Cuba and Germany -- emergance and consolidation

Cuba quote about Batista

Robert Quirk – Batista’s corruption and repression delegitimised the political system.

Cuba quote about the US

Piero Gleijeses – US hostility in the Cold War radicalised the revolution.

Cuba quote about independance war

Louis A. Pérez Jr. – The 1959 revolution was “1898’s unfinished business.”

Duo about hitler

Alan Bullock – Hitler was the “master of the Reich,” a skilful manipulator.

Hans Mommsen – Nazis exploited structural weaknesses; Hitler was a “weak dictator,” carried by circumstances.

Duo about conditions

Richard Evans – Weimar’s political system was flawed: proportional representation bred instability.

Detlev Peukert – Economic collapse, not ideology, explains Nazi electoral breakthrough.

Quote about discipline — Cuba

Carmelo Mesa-Lago – Social policy gains came with discipline through rationing and CDRs.

Quote about consent — Cuba

Antoni Kapcia – “Rituals and symbols sustained everyday consent.”

Terror quote hitler

Alan Bullock – “A totalitarian dictatorship maintained by terror and propaganda.”

quote about less monolithic

Martin Broszat – Nazi control relied on Resistenz (everyday non-compliance) more than totalitarian domination; regime less monolithic than claimed.